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DBMS > 4D vs. Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. OpenSearch vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. OpenSearch vs. Tarantool

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  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 systemDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.80
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.08
Rank#132  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score14.72
Rank#40  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score1.88
Rank#146  Overall
#24  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.tarantool.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.datomic.comopensearch.org/­docs/­latestwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
Developer4D, IncCognitectHypertable Inc.Amazon Web ServicesVK
Initial release19842012200920212008
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.6735, June 20230.9.8.11, March 20162.5.0, January 20232.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Aiven for OpenSearch: Fully managed open source search and analytics suite. Out-of-the-box integrations get you up and running in a couple of clicks.
Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoyesLua, C and SQL stored procedures
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor on file system levelyesAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes, write ahead logging
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 developmentyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnonoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionDatomicHypertableOpenSearchTarantool
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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