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DBMS > 4D vs. Graphite vs. HugeGraph vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Graphite vs. HugeGraph vs. IRONdb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgraphite.readthedocs.iohugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
Developer4D, IncChris DavisBaiduCirconus LLC.
Initial release1984200620182017
Current releasev20, April 20230.9V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 indexesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes, in Lua
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoUsers, roles and permissionsno

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