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DBMS > 4D vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.heavy.ai
Developer4D, IncMicrosoftChris DavisHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hypertable Inc.
Initial release19842010200620162009
Current releasev20, April 20235.10, January 20220.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CPythonC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
.NETLinux
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesno
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 indexesyesnonorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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