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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.27
Rank	#112	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#388	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.58
Rank	#143	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

opennms.github.io/newts

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

OpenNMS Group

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

1984

2014

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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