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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. PostgreSQL vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. PostgreSQL vs. SiteWhere

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Widely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score645.54
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.postgresql.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.postgresql.org/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Developer4D, IncAlibabaCloudflarePostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerSiteWhere
Initial release198420181989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL2010
Current releasev20, April 202316.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedFreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsnoyesyes
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.yesnonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonepartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess managed on TSDB instance levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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