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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. MarkLogic vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 dataOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comdruid.apache.orgwww.marklogic.comwww.monetdb.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.marklogic.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation and contributorsMarkLogic Corp.MonetDB BVquasardb
Initial release19842012200120042009
Current releasev20, April 202329.0.1, April 202411.0, December 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL for queryingyes infoSQL92yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes, with Range Indexesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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