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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EJDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

greptime.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.greptime.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Softmotions

Greptime Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

1984

2012

2022

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

in-process shared library

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Simple rights management via user accounts

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