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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Bangdb vs. etcd vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

A distributed reliable key-value store

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

bangdb.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.bangdb.com

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Initial release

1984

2012

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.4, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes (enterprise version only)

Role-based access control

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