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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AntDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Graphite vs. ToroDB

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Name

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

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

kylin.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

kylin.apache.org/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

Developer

4D, Inc

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Chris Davis

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

2015

2006

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL2016 compliant

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

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