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

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

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

www.graphengine.io

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.heavy.ai

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

4D, Inc

Microsoft

Chris Davis

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1984

2010

2006

2016

2021

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.10, January 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Aiven for OpenSearch: Fully managed open source search and analytics suite. Out-of-the-box integrations get you up and running in a couple of clicks.

Implementation language

.NET and C

Python

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

.NET

Linux
Unix

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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