DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yanza

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Yanza 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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

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

rocksdb.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Facebook, Inc.

Teradata

Yanza

Initial release

1984

2000

2013

2005

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

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

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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