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DBMS > 4D vs. Graph Engine vs. RRDtool vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Graph Engine vs. RRDtool vs. SurrealDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 engineIndustry 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 fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.graphengine.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsurrealdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncMicrosoftTobias OetikerSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release1984201019992022
Current releasev20, April 20231.8.0, 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation language.NET and CC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableRust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
.NETHP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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 storageyesyes
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 groupsnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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