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DBMS > 4D vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSnowflake Computing Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release1984201520142019
Current releasev20, April 20233.0.0, September 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangClojure
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
hostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes, limitedyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesErlanguser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factoryesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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