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DBMS > 4D vs. Hypertable vs. Newts vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Hypertable vs. Newts vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comopennms.github.io/­newtsspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikispark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
Developer4D, IncHypertable Inc.OpenNMS GroupApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release19842009201420142011
Current releasev20, April 20230.9.8.11, March 20163.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScalaC#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP REST
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJava
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnononono

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