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DBMS > 4D vs. Blueflood vs. Dragonfly vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blueflood vs. Dragonfly vs. RRDtool

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comblueflood.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
oss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
Developer4D, IncRackspaceDragonflyDB team and community contributorsTobias Oetiker
Initial release1984201320231999
Current releasev20, April 20231.0, March 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyespredefined schemescheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysNumeric data only
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.yesnonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocolin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
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 infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoLuano
Triggersyesnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnone
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
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoPassword-based authenticationno

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