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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Dragonfly vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

1984

2023

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.0, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

4D 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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

Password-based authentication

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