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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Axibase vs. Badger vs. Dragonfly vs. HEAVY.AI

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.heavy.ai
Developer4D, IncAxibase CorporationDGraph LabsDragonflyDB team and community contributorsHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release19842013201720232016
Current releasev20, April 2023155851.0, March 20235.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freescheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
GoC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoLuano
Triggersyesyesnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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