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DBMS > 4D vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Rockset vs. TimesTen vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Rockset vs. TimesTen vs. Trafodion

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.03
Rank#122  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverrockset.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTdocs.rockset.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developer4D, IncPerconaRocksetOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release19842008201919982014
Current releasev20, April 20238.0.36-28, 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)2.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyesyes
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.yesyesno infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoPL/SQLJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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