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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Kylin vs. LevelDB vs. Tigris 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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.13
Rank	#114	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#111	Overall
	#18	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#356	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#52	Key-value stores
	#23	Search engines
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

kylin.apache.org

github.com/google/leveldb

www.tigrisdata.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

kylin.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Google

Tigris Data, Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

2015

2011

2022

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes, using FoundationDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

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