DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J

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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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

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Score	2.50
Rank	#106	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	2.89
Rank	#98	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	3.24
Rank	#91	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#341	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#232	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.4d.com

drill.apache.org

www.exasol.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

livedoc.4d.com

drill.apache.org/docs

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.circonus.com/irondb

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Exasol

Circonus LLC.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

1984

2012

2000

2017

2004

Current release

v18.1, March 2020

1.18.0, September 2020

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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