DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Pinot vs. Memcached vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Pinot vs. Memcached vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.pinot.apache.org

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Transwarp

Initial release

1984

2015

2003

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.0.0, September 2023

1.6.25, March 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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