DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. BigObject vs. Dragonfly vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. BigObject vs. Dragonfly vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#255	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.4d.com

drill.apache.org

bigobject.io

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.bigobject.io

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

BigObject, Inc.

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Microsoft

Initial release

1984

2012

2015

2023

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

1.0, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

scheme-free

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

JSON types

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

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

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Lua

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Depending on the underlying data source

Password-based authentication

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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