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DBMS > 4D vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata vs. TimesTen vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata vs. TimesTen vs. Vitess

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)In-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.compostgis.netwww.teradata.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlvitess.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.compostgis.net/­documentationdocs.teradata.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1vitess.io/­docs
Developer4D, IncTeradataOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release19842005198419982013
Current releasev20, April 20233.4.2, February 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 201911 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)15.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGo
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hosted
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelPL/SQLyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoHashingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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