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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Axibase vs. PouchDB vs. TerarkDB

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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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

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	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

pouchdb.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

pouchdb.com/guides

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1984

2013

2012

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

15585

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

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

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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 views

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
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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