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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. atoti vs. IRONdb vs. TimesTen vs. WakandaDB

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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

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

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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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	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

atoti.io

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.atoti.io

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

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

ActiveViam

Circonus LLC.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1984

2017

1998

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

yes, in Lua

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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