DBMS > 4D vs. Graphite vs. OpenSearch vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Graphite vs. OpenSearch vs. TypeDB

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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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	Object oriented DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

typedb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

typedb.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Chris Davis

Amazon Web Services

Vaticle

Initial release

1984

2006

2021

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API
Sockets

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

Synchronous replication via raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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