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DBMS > 4D vs. Badger vs. Dragonfly vs. HEAVY.AI

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  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 systemAn 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 DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#328  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.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, IncDGraph LabsDragonflyDB team and community contributorsHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release1984201720232016
Current releasev20, April 20231.0, March 20235.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freescheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostrings, 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
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 proceduresyesnoLuano
Triggersyesnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionBadgerDragonflyHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022
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