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DBMS > 4D vs. Bangdb vs. Dragonfly vs. TimesTen vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Bangdb vs. Dragonfly vs. TimesTen vs. TinkerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 instanceIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combangdb.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bangdb.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer4D, IncSachin Sinha, BangDBDragonflyDB team and community contributorsOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19842012202319982009
Current releasev20, April 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20211.0, March 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
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 arraysyesyes
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 ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
TinkerPop 3
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
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoLuaPL/SQLno
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes, strict serializability by the serveryesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsoptional
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 authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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