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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. TigerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.heavy.aidocs.tigergraph.com
Developer4D, IncAlibabaMicrosoftHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release1984201020162017
Current releasev20, April 20235.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hosted.NETLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnoyes
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlibaba Cloud TSDBGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022TigerGraph
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