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DBMS > 4D vs. GigaSpaces vs. Realm vs. RRDtool vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GigaSpaces vs. Realm vs. RRDtool vs. XTDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#197  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.gigaspaces.comrealm.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlrealm.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.xtdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncGigaspaces TechnologiesRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Tobias OetikerJuxt Ltd.
Initial release19842000201419992019
Current releasev20, April 202315.5, September 20201.8.0, 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableClojure
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesno infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-99 for query and DML statementsnonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
in-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynono
Triggersyesyes, event driven architectureyes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
nonenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRole-based access controlyesno

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