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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Prometheus

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgdruid.apache.orgprometheus.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designprometheus.io/­docs
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributors
Initial release1984201420122015
Current releasev20, April 202330.0.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaGo
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemno

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