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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Neptune vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenEdge vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Neptune vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenEdge vs. RRDtool

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleApplication development environment with integrated database management systemIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­neptunegeospock.comwww.progress.com/­openedgeoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
Developer4D, IncAmazonGeoSpockProgress Software CorporationTobias Oetiker
Initial release1984201719841999
Current releasev20, April 20232.0, September 2019OpenEdge 12.2, March 20201.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.yesnonoyesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnotemporal, categoricalyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per tableUsers and groupsno

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