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DBMS > 4D vs. Bangdb vs. Dragonfly vs. EXASOL vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Bangdb vs. Dragonfly vs. EXASOL vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceHigh-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 DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.combangdb.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.exasol.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bangdb.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.exasol.com/­resources
Developer4D, IncSachin Sinha, BangDBDragonflyDB team and community contributorsExasolSimer Plaha
Initial release19842012202320002018
Current releasev20, April 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20211.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freescheme-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesno
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 indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL like support with command line toolnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
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
Java
Lua
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoLuauser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes (enterprise version only)Password-based authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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