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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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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
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.exasol.comopennms.github.io/­newtsswaydb.simer.auvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikivelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Developer4D, IncExasolOpenNMS GroupSimer PlahaVelocityDB Inc
Initial release19842000201420182011
Current releasev20, April 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes
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
HTTP REST
Java API
.Net
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
JavaJava
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonono
TriggersyesyesnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operationsACID
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.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnonoBased on Windows Authentication

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