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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Dragonfly

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Dragonfly

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comdrill.apache.orgiotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdrill.apache.org/­docsiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docs
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationDragonflyDB team and community contributors
Initial release1984201220182023
Current releasev20, April 20231.20.3, January 20231.1.0, April 20231.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesscheme-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesLua
Triggersyesnoyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesIntegration with Hadoop and Sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic execution of command blocks and scripts
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, strict serializability by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsDepending on the underlying data sourceyesPassword-based authentication

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