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DBMS > 4D vs. EsgynDB vs. Hive vs. KeyDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EsgynDB vs. Hive vs. KeyDB vs. Trafodion

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.esgyn.cnhive.apache.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.keydb.devtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developer4D, IncEsgynApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19842015201220192014
Current releasev20, April 20233.1.3, April 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJavaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceLuaJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication between multi datacentersselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access control and ACLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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