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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  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 graphMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)In-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
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational 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
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combangdb.comorientdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bangdb.comwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer4D, IncSachin Sinha, BangDBOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19842012201019982009
Current releasev20, April 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20213.2.29, March 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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, geospatialyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query language, no joinsyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava, JavascriptPL/SQLno
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)Hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationship in graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesno
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 modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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