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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Pinot vs. Dgraph vs. EXASOL vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Pinot vs. Dgraph vs. EXASOL vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.compinot.apache.orgdgraph.iowww.exasol.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.pinot.apache.orgdgraph.io/­docswww.exasol.com/­resources
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation and contributorsDgraph Labs, Inc.ExasolSimer Plaha
Initial release19842015201620002018
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoScala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSynchronous replication via Raftnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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