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DBMS > 4D vs. RisingWave vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. RisingWave vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#237  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.risingwave.com/­databasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intrositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, IncRisingWave LabsSiteWhereDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release1984202220102018
Current releasev20, April 20231.2, September 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageRustJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesUDFs in Python or Javayes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBaseGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers and RolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access control

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