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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Hive

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Hive

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichive.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroiccwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
Developer4D, IncChris DavisSpotifyApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release19842019200620142012
Current releasev20, April 20233.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)HTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduce
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnoneyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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