DBMS > 4D vs. InfinityDB vs. OrientDB vs. SQLite vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. InfinityDB vs. OrientDB vs. SQLite vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Boiler Bay Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

1984

2002

2010

2000

2018

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.0

3.2.29, March 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication

none

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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