DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A 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 Flink

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#265	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

iotdb.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

trino.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

4D, Inc

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

1984

2016

2018

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1.0, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

JDBC
Native API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

3 replicas

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

Alibaba Cloud user access control

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

A real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantages

* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenarios

* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customers

* Alibaba & Ant-Finance：he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics

33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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