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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Dragonfly vs. STSdb vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

4D, Inc

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

STS Soft SC

Transaction Software GmbH

Transwarp

Initial release

1984

2023

2011

1987

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.0, March 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

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

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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