DBMS > 4D vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

rocksdb.org

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

2015

2013

2014

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes, limited

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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