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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IRONdb vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

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.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

opennms.github.io/newts

opentsdb.net

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

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

Circonus LLC.

OpenNMS Group

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2017

2014

2011

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

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

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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 (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Telnet API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

simple password-based access control

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