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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Neptune vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Neptune vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. Splunk

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­neptunequestdb.iowww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
Developer4D, IncAmazonQuestDB Technology IncOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplunk Inc.
Initial release19842017201420092003
Current releasev20, April 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL with time-series extensionsnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoErlangyes
Triggersyesnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
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 replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID for single-table writesnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and roles
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAmazon NeptuneQuestDBRiak KVSplunk
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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