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DBMS > 4D vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. Splunk

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemWell established RDBMSDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.actian.com/­ingreskairosdb.github.iodocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
Developer4D, IncActian CorporationSplunk Inc.
Initial release19841974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20132003
Current releasev20, April 202311.2, May 20221.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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