DBMS > 4D vs. Google BigQuery vs. ObjectBox vs. TDengine vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Google BigQuery vs. ObjectBox vs. TDengine vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.objectbox.io

docs.tdengine.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Google

ObjectBox Limited

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

2010

2017

2019

1998

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

3.0, August 2022

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

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

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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