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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. Bangdb 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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

drill.apache.org

bangdb.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.bangdb.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

2012

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

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

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Depending on the underlying data source

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users and roles

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