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DBMS > 4D vs. Elasticsearch vs. Graphite vs. HugeGraph vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Elasticsearch vs. Graphite vs. HugeGraph vs. ObjectBox

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
objectbox.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iohugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.objectbox.io
Developer4D, IncElasticChris DavisBaiduObjectBox Limited
Initial release19842010200620182017
Current releasev20, April 20238.6, January 20230.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric 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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoUsers, roles and permissionsyes
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionElasticsearchGraphiteHugeGraphObjectBox
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23 April 2024

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15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

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