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DBMS > 4D vs. Blueflood vs. Citus vs. Drizzle

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blueflood vs. Citus vs. Drizzle

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comblueflood.iowww.citusdata.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.citusdata.com
Developer4D, IncRackspaceDrizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker
Initial release1984201320102008
Current releasev20, April 20238.1, December 20187.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoGNU GPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersyesnoyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTP

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