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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. PlanetScale vs. Sequoiadb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemTime Series DBMS based on CassandraScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comopennms.github.io/­newtsopentsdb.netplanetscale.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlplanetscale.com/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
Developer4D, IncOpenNMS Groupcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsPlanetScaleSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release19842014201120202013
Current releasev20, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoproprietary syntaxJavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID at shard levelDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolessimple password-based access control

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