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DBMS > 4D vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
Developer4D, IncCCRi and othersIBM8Kdata
Initial release19842014201420172016
Current releasev20, April 20234.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaC++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesnono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPL/SQL, SQL PLyes
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layeryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nodepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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