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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2 vs. NuoDB vs. TempoIQ vs. YottaDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.h2database.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

tempoiq.com (offline)

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

doc.nuodb.com

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Thomas Mueller

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

TempoIQ

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1984

2005

2013

2012

2001

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

simple authentication-based access control

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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