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DBMS > 4D vs. OceanBase vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. OceanBase vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerarkDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comen.oceanbase.comrocksdb.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasegithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikibytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
Developer4D, IncOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupFacebook, Inc.TeradataByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release19842010201320052016
Current releasev20, April 20234.3.0, April 20249.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.yesyesnoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modenoR packagesno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)horizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication using Paxosyesyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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