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DBMS > 4D vs. eXtremeDB vs. Graph Engine vs. TempoIQ vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. eXtremeDB vs. Graph Engine vs. TempoIQ vs. Trafodion

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#214  Overall
#99  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.mcobject.comwww.graphengine.iotempoiq.com (offline)trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developer4D, IncMcObjectMicrosoftTempoIQApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19842001201020122014
Current releasev20, April 20238.2, 20212.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++.NET and CC++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
.NETLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 infosupport of XML interfaces availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyes infoby defining eventsnoyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning / shardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationActive Replication Fabricâ„¢ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: 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.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupssimple authentication-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensioneXtremeDBGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDBTrafodion
Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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