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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. Newts vs. Quasardb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.datomic.comopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.ai
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­master
Developer4D, IncAlibabaCognitectOpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release19842016201220142009
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.6735, June 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesnoyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersyesnoBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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