DBMS > 4D vs. Graphite vs. GridDB vs. HugeGraph vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Graphite vs. GridDB vs. HugeGraph vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

griddb.net

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.griddb.net

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Chris Davis

Toshiba Corporation

Baidu

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

1984

2006

2013

2018

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.1, August 2022

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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News

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23 April 2024

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15 February 2024

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14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

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