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DBMS > 4D vs. GridGain vs. Quasardb vs. TigerGraph vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GridGain vs. Quasardb vs. TigerGraph vs. TimescaleDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.gridgain.comquasar.aiwww.tigergraph.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.tigergraph.comdocs.timescale.com
Developer4D, IncGridGain Systems, Inc.quasardbTimescale
Initial release19842007200920172017
Current releasev20, April 2023GridGain 8.5.13.14.1, January 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial, open sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLC++C++C
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)with Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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