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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. openGauss vs. RavenDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

ravendb.net

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

ravendb.net/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

4D, Inc

Huawei and openGauss community

Hibernating Rhinos

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1984

2019

2010

2003

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.0, March 2022

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL 2011

SQL-like query language (RQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Access rights for users and roles

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