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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. Dragonfly vs. MarkLogic

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. Dragonfly vs. MarkLogic

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comdruid.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.progress.com/­marklogic
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentation
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation and contributorsDragonflyDB team and community contributorsMarkLogic Corp.
Initial release1984201220232001
Current releasev20, April 202329.0.1, April 20241.0, March 202311.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedscheme-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL for queryingnoyes infoSQL92
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
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
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoLuayes infovia XQuery or JavaScript
Triggersyesnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes, with Range Indexes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemPassword-based authenticationRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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