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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
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 DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileIndustry 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.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
objectbox.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgraphite.readthedocs.iohugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.objectbox.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
Developer4D, IncChris DavisBaiduObjectBox LimitedTobias Oetiker
Initial release19842006201820171999
Current releasev20, April 20230.91.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesNumeric data only
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.yesnononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary native APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoUsers, roles and permissionsyesno
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionGraphiteHugeGraphObjectBoxRRDtool
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