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DBMS > 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. IRONdb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.combitnine.net/­agensgraphaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combitnine.net/­documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
Developer4D, IncBitnine Global Inc.AmazonCirconus LLC.
Initial release1984201620122017
Current releasev20, April 20232.1, December 2018V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageCC and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Cypher Query Language
JDBC
HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes, in Lua
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneno, but can be realized using table inheritanceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes infomanaged transparently by AWSconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesno

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