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DBMS > 4D vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. STSdb vs. TDengine vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. STSdb vs. TDengine vs. Trino

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTime Series DBMS and big data platformFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servergithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
trino.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.tdengine.comtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
Developer4D, IncMicrosoftSTS Soft SCTDEngine, previously Taos DataTrino Software Foundation
Initial release19841989201120192012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current releasev20, April 2023SQL Server 2022, November 20224.0.8, September 20153.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C#CJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
WindowsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonodepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
.NET Client APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanonoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyesyesnoyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnoneShardingdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnoneyesdepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnodepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesSQL standard access control
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionMicrosoft SQL ServerSTSdbTDengineTrino
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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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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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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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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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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