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DBMS > 4D vs. Citus vs. Hypertable vs. JaguarDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Citus vs. Hypertable vs. JaguarDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.citusdata.comwww.jaguardb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.citusdata.comwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
Developer4D, IncHypertable Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.Mireo
Initial release19842010200920152020
Current releasev20, April 20238.1, December 20180.9.8.11, March 20163.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnorights management via user accountsyes

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