DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Firebolt vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Firebolt vs. RocksDB

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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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.mcobject.com

www.firebolt.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.firebolt.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

McObject

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2001

2020

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

8.2, 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

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

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

depending on storage layer

yes

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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