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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQL.JS

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Name

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational 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	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1984

2012

1984

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

HP Open VMS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

schema-less columns are supported

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

yes

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

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL for querying

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

no

no

Triggers

yes

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

no

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

no

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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

no

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