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DBMS > 4D vs. HBase vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. HBase vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetBaiduIBM
Initial release1984200820182017
Current releasev20, April 20232.3.4, January 20210.92.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoCoprocessors in Javaasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesvia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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