DBMS > 4D vs. OpenTSDB vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. OpenTSDB vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

opentsdb.net

realm.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

realm.io/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

STS Soft SC

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1984

2011

2014

2011

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

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 API
Telnet API

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

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.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

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