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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Databend vs. Spark SQL vs. TimesTen vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

spark.apache.org/sql

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.databend.com

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

Databend Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1984

2021

2014

1998

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.0.59, April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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