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DBMS > 4D vs. EXASOL vs. RisingWave vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EXASOL vs. RisingWave vs. XTDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.exasol.comwww.risingwave.com/­databasegithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introwww.xtdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncExasolRisingWave LabsJuxt Ltd.
Initial release1984200020222019
Current releasev20, April 20231.2, September 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageRustClojure
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers and Roles

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