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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Impala vs. DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. InterSystems Caché

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAnalytic DBMS for HadoopDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA multi-model DBMS and application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comimpala.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comwww.graphengine.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­cache
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.intersystems.com
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDolphinDB, IncMicrosoftInterSystems
Initial release19842013201820101997
Current releasev20, April 20234.1.0, June 2022v2.00.4, January 20222018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++.NET and C
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
.NETAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyesyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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