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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Druid vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Druid vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbdruid.apache.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, IncAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsSiteWhereDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release1984201220102018
Current releasev20, April 202329.0.1, April 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedpredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL 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
HTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on HBaseGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 groupsAccess managed on TSDB instance levelRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access control

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