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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Kdb vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	7.73
Rank	#45	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

kx.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

code.kx.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (q)

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

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access control via Jena Security

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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