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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Axibase vs. IRONdb vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Axibase Corporation

Circonus LLC.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

1984

2013

2017

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

15585

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

text, numeric, histograms

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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