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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. NSDb vs. NuoDB vs. SwayDB vs. TDengine

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comnsdb.iowww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedoc.nuodb.comdocs.tdengine.com
Developer4D, IncDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Simer PlahaTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release19842017201320182019
Current releasev20, April 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaC++ScalaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesnoyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageyesnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava, SQLnono
Triggersyesyesnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocolAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersnoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionNSDbNuoDBSwayDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ 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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