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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache IoTDB vs. CouchDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache IoTDB vs. CouchDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  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.An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-serviceiotdb.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stable
Developer4D, IncAlibabaCloud Inc.Apache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer
Initial release1984201620182005
Current releasev20, April 20231.1.0, April 20233.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL for queryingSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTJDBC
Native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication3 replicasselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop ConnectorIntegration with Hadoop and Sparkyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a single document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAlibaba Cloud user access controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlibaba Cloud Log ServiceApache IoTDBCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"
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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