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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. KeyDB vs. openGauss vs. Realm

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
gitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
realm.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.keydb.devdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
realm.io/­docs
Developer4D, IncEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Huawei and openGauss communityRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release1984201920192014
Current releasev20, April 20233.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3Open SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noANSI SQL 2011no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuayesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupssimple password-based access control and ACLAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes

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