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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. gStore vs. IRONdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Website

www.4d.com

druid.apache.org

en.gstore.cn

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

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

1984

2012

2016

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

1.2, November 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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 for querying

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
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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