DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. KeyDB vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. KeyDB vs. QuestDB

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Name

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Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#219	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	2.48
Rank	#115	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

questdb.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.keydb.dev

questdb.io/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Atos Convergence Creators

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

1984

2012

2016

2019

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

simple password-based access control and ACL

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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