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DBMS > 4D vs. Machbase Neo vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Machbase Neo vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion vs. Vitess

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.commachbase.comspark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.orgvitess.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.commachbase.com/­dbmsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvitess.io/­docs
Developer4D, IncMachbaseApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release19842013201420142013
Current releasev20, April 2023V8.0, August 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 201915.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCScalaC++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJava Stored Proceduresyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factornoneyes, via HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tablenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupssimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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