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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Galaxybase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Primary database model

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

galaxybase.com

www.hawkular.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Community supported by Red Hat

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

1984

2017

2014

1984

Current release

v20, April 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role-based access control

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