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DBMS > 4D vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. NSDb vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. NSDb vs. TinkerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopCloud-based data warehousing serviceScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score62.59
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.34
Rank#166  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousensdb.iotinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homensdb.io/­Architecture
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM
Initial release19842012201420172009
Current releasev20, April 20233.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.yesno infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducePL/SQL, SQL PLnono
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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