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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

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

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

iotdb.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Spotify

Initial release

1984

2018

2013

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1.0, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

JDBC
Native API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

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

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

yes

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