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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpaceTime vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.sequoiadb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

4D, Inc

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Mireo

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

2013

2020

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

proprietary protocol using JSON

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

simple password-based access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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