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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

rocksdb.org

terminusdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Facebook, Inc.

Teradata

DataChemist Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1984

2013

2005

2018

1987

Current release

v20, April 2023

9.4.0, June 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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