DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Doris vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Doris vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

ignite.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Mireo

Initial release

1984

2017

2015

2014

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.2.2, February 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
MySQL client

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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