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DBMS > 4D vs. EXASOL vs. Hypertable vs. Newts vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EXASOL vs. Hypertable vs. Newts vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 systemHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopTime Series DBMS based on CassandraAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.exasol.comopennms.github.io/­newtsswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
Developer4D, IncExasolHypertable Inc.OpenNMS GroupSimer Plaha
Initial release19842000200920142018
Current releasev20, April 20230.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoAtomic execution of operations
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnonono

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