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DBMS > 4D vs. CouchDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. CouchDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. TDengine

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comcouchdb.apache.orgopentsdb.netgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release1984200520112019
Current releasev20, April 20233.3.3, December 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"OpenTSDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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