DBMS > 4D vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

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

Primary database model

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.4d.com

iotdb.apache.org

galaxybase.com

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2018

2017

2008

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1.0, April 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

8.0.36-28, 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
Native API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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