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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Splunk

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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

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS

Search engine

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	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

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

basex.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

docs.basex.org

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Atos Convergence Creators

BaseX GmbH

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1984

2016

2007

2003

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

10.7, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

optional

XQuery supports 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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual 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

multiple readers, single writer

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users and roles

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