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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicedruid.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, IncAlibabaCloud Inc.Apache Software Foundation and contributorsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19842016201220102018
Current releasev20, April 202329.0.1, April 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaErlangProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL for queryingSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication3 replicasyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAlibaba Cloud user access controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access control
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlibaba Cloud Log ServiceApache DruidIBM CloudantTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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