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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Rockset vs. XTDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbrockset.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.rockset.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncAlibabaRocksetJuxt Ltd.
Initial release198420192019
Current releasev20, April 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++Clojure
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsdynamic typingyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesnono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noRead-only SQL queries, including JOINslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTHTTP RESTHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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