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DBMS > 4D vs. GreptimeDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GreptimeDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Trafodion

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgreptime.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.greptime.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheretrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developer4D, IncGreptime Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAP infoformerly SybaseApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19842022200919922014
Current releasev20, April 20233.2.0, December 202217, July 20152.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageRustErlangC++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPythonErlangyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsSimple rights management via user accountsyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionGreptimeDBRiak KVSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereTrafodion
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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