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DBMS > 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.combitnine.net/­agensgraphiotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combitnine.net/­documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
Developer4D, IncBitnine Global Inc.Apache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release19842016201820092011
Current releasev20, April 20232.1, December 20181.1.0, April 20233.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaErlangC#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Cypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBC
Native API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesErlangno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneno, but can be realized using table inheritancehorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes, using Riak Securityno

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