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DBMS > 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. Apache Pinot vs. Drizzle vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. Apache Pinot vs. Drizzle vs. RavenDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle 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 PostgreSQLRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#320  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#274  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#102  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.combitnine.net/­agensgraphpinot.apache.orgravendb.net
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combitnine.net/­documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgravendb.net/­docs
Developer4D, IncBitnine Global Inc.Apache Software Foundation and contributorsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHibernating Rhinos
Initial release19842016201520082010
Current releasev20, April 20232.1, December 20181.0.0, September 20237.2.4, September 20125.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Cypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBCJDBC.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes
Triggersyesnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneno, but can be realized using table inheritancehorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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