DBMS > 4D vs. DolphinDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Prometheus vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. DolphinDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Prometheus vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.dolphindb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

prometheus.io

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

prometheus.io/docs

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

4D, Inc

DolphinDB, Inc

Google

SenX

Initial release

1984

2018

2010

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

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
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

by Federation

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

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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