DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SiteWhere

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

druid.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Atos Convergence Creators

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

2012

2016

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL for querying

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

LDAP

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

All languages with LDAP bindings

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access managed on TSDB instance level

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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