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DBMS > 4D vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. TerarkDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 systemDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.80
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.08
Rank#132  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#377  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.datomic.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
Developer4D, IncCognitectDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release1984201220082016
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.6735, June 20237.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIJDBCC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPno

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