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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. MarkLogic vs. openGemini vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. MarkLogic vs. openGemini vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 databaseAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Trend Chart
Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score4.15
Rank#70  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#8  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comdruid.apache.orgwww.progress.com/­marklogicwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationdocs.opengemini.org/­guideterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation and contributorsMarkLogic Corp.Huawei and openGemini communityDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19842012200120222018
Current releasev20, April 202330.0.0, June 202411.0, December 20221.1, July 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++GoProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL for queryingyes infoSQL92SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
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
HTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes, with Range Indexesyes
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 levelsAdministrators and common users accountsRole-based access control

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