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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SWC-DB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.4d.comdruid.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.heavy.ai
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation and contributorsHEAVY.AI, Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release1984201220162020
Current releasev20, April 202330.0.0, June 20245.10, January 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL for queryingyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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