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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Quasardb vs. RisingWave

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewquasar.aiwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
Developer4D, IncAlibabaquasardbRisingWave Labs
Initial release1984201320092022
Current releasev20, April 20232.7.6, April 20243.14.1, January 20241.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and StringsNumeric data and Stringsyes infointeger and binaryStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess managed on TSDB instance levelsimple rights management via user accountsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers and Roles
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlibaba Cloud TSDBInfluxDBQuasardbRisingWave
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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