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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

opennms.github.io/newts

opentsdb.net

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

4D, Inc

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OpenNMS Group

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2010

2014

2011

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Telnet API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple password-based access control

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