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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RRDtool vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

siridb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.siridb.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Tobias Oetiker

Cesbit

Initial release

1984

2000

2010

1999

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

Numeric data

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library
Pipes

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple rights management via user accounts

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