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DBMS > 4D vs. Graphite vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Graphite vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  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 WhisperDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.auvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgraphite.readthedocs.iorethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
Developer4D, IncChris DavisThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer PlahaVictoriaMetrics
Initial release19842006200920182018
Current releasev20, April 20232.4.1, August 2020v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ScalaGo
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
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
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
TriggersyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationnoneSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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