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DBMS > 4D vs. Datomic vs. Dolt vs. OpenTSDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Datomic vs. Dolt vs. OpenTSDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
opentsdb.netwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.datomic.comdocs.dolthub.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer4D, IncCognitectDoltHub Inccurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsAlessandro Furieri
Initial release19842012201820112008
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.6735, June 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
HTTP REST
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infocurrently in alpha releasenono
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.selectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupnono

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