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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. GridDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

griddb.net

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.griddb.net

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Toshiba Corporation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

2014

2013

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.1, August 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID at container level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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