DBMS > 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. ClickHouse vs. Riak TS vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. ClickHouse vs. Riak TS vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-memory caching system

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.00
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Score	16.34
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	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
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	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

clickhouse.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Clickhouse Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1984

2015

2016

2015

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes, limited

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Memcached protocol

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Role-based access control

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