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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Datomic vs. InfluxDB vs. searchxml vs. SiteWhere

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.datomic.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.datomic.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Developer4D, IncCognitectinformationpartners gmbhSiteWhere
Initial release19842012201320152010
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.6735, June 20232.7.6, April 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureGoC++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
Java
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes infoon the application server
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnosimple rights management via user accountsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionDatomicInfluxDBsearchxmlSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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