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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J vs. SiteWhere vs. TDengine

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsrdf4j.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
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Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsrdf4j.org/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
Developer4D, IncMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SiteWhereTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release19842016200420102019
Current releasev20, April 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemaspredefined schemeyes
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 indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSiteWhereTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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