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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. atoti vs. GridGain vs. Kdb vs. Newts

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

High performance Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.atoti.io

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

code.kx.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

ActiveViam

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

1984

2007

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

rights management via user accounts

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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