DBMS > 4D vs. Newts vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Newts vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

opennms.github.io/newts

rocksdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

4D, Inc

OpenNMS Group

Facebook, Inc.

Teradata

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2014

2013

2005

2018

Current release

v20, April 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST
Java API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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