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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 dataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgdruid.apache.orgterminusdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.xtdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsDataChemist Ltd.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release19842014201220182019
Current releasev20, April 202329.0.1, April 202411.0.0, January 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaProlog, RustClojure
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingSQL-like query language (WOQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesJournaling Streamsyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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 groupsnoRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemRole-based access control

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