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DBMS > 4D vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. KeyDB vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. KeyDB vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.keydb.devdocs.tigergraph.com
Developer4D, IncIBMEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.8Kdata
Initial release19842017201920172016
Current releasev20, April 20232.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoBSD-3commercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexesyesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search module
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesLuayes
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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