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DBMS > 4D vs. IRONdb vs. openGauss vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IRONdb vs. openGauss vs. PouchDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/gitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
pouchdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
pouchdb.com/­guides
Developer4D, IncCirconus LLC.Huawei and openGauss communityApache Software Foundation
Initial release1984201720192012
Current releasev20, April 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.0, March 20227.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, C++, JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)ANSI SQL 2011no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in LuayesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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