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DBMS > 4D vs. EJDB vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EJDB vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Postgres-XL

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
Developer4D, IncSoftmotionsChris DavisIBM
Initial release19842012200620172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releasev20, April 20232.010 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCPythonC and C++C
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
Unix
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.yesnonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
in-process shared libraryHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infolockingNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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