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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Kylin vs. Galaxybase vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Kylin vs. Galaxybase vs. RRDtool

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformIndustry 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 DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comdrill.apache.orgkylin.apache.orggalaxybase.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdrill.apache.org/­docskylin.apache.org/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Tobias Oetiker
Initial release19842012201520171999
Current releasev20, April 20231.20.3, January 20233.1.0, July 2020Nov 20, November 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesStrong typed schemayes
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.yesnononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)nono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++Go
Java
Python
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 proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined procedures and functionsno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsDepending on the underlying data sourceRole-based access controlno

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