DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. Google BigQuery vs. Riak TS vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Google BigQuery vs. Riak TS vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Google

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

1999

2010

2015

1998

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL-92

yes

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Erlang

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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