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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. KairosDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. KairosDB vs. Trafodion

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
RDF storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqljena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.iotrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19842014200020132014
Current releasev20, April 20234.9.0, July 20231.2.2, November 20182.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptJavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesyes infovia event handlernono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infoTDB TransactionsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess control via Jena Securitysimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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