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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Impala vs. Newts vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.4d.com

impala.apache.org

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

OpenNMS Group

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1984

2013

2014

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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