DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. IRONdb vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. IRONdb vs. TigerGraph

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

In-memory caching system

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cachelot.io

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

1984

2012

2015

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

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