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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Dgraph vs. SAP HANA vs. TDengine vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

dgraph.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

4D, Inc

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

SAP

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Tencent

Initial release

1984

2016

2010

2019

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Planned for future releases

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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