DBMS > 4D vs. Graphite vs. Oracle vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Graphite vs. Oracle vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak KV

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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

Widely used RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.oracle.com/database

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

4D, Inc

Chris Davis

Oracle

Percona

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1984

2006

1980

2015

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

23c, September 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes, using Riak Security

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