DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Kylin vs. BigObject vs. HBase vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Kylin vs. BigObject vs. HBase vs. ToroDB

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Name

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

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Wide column store

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.bigobject.io

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

BigObject, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

2015

2008

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights for users and roles

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