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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BaseX

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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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS

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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

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

basex.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

docs.basex.org

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

BaseX GmbH

Initial release

1984

2007

Current release

v20, April 2023

10.7, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

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
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

XQuery supports types

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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