DB-EnginesextremeDB - solve IoT connectivity disruptionsEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > 4D vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL vs. QuestDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwaremSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
hughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlquestdb.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.heavy.aiquestdb.io/­docs
Developer4D, IncDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hughes TechnologiesQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release19842008201619942014
Current releasev20, April 20237.2.4, September 20125.10, January 20224.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDACJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infowith proprietary extensionsyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionDrizzleHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022mSQL infoMini SQLQuestDB
News

Combine Java and Rust Code Coverage in a Polyglot Project
10 September 2024

Weather data visualization and forecasting with QuestDB, Kafka and Grafana
4 September 2024

Building a new vector based storage model
22 August 2024

Calibrating VWAP executions with QuestDB and Grafana
16 August 2024

Write Time: a call for community writers
13 August 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionDrizzleHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022mSQL infoMini SQLQuestDB
DB-Engines blog posts

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

show all

MySQL won the April ranking; did its forks follow?
1 April 2015, Paul Andlinger

Has MySQL finally lost its mojo?
1 July 2013, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Dr. Mike Flaxman, VP or Product Management at HEAVY.AI – Interview Series
19 September 2024, Unite.AI

5 Q’s for Mike Flaxman, Vice President of Heavy.AI
15 August 2024, Center for Data Innovation

HEAVY.AI Accelerates Big Data Analytics with Vultr's High-Performance GPU Cloud Infrastructure
11 September 2024, insideBIGDATA

HEAVY.AI Accelerates Big Data Analytics with Vultr’s High-Performance GPU Cloud Infrastructure
11 September 2024, insideBIGDATA

Meta delivers strong earnings, but weak guidance and heavy AI spending prompt investors to bail
24 April 2024, SiliconANGLE News

provided by Google News

SQL Extensions for Time-Series Data in QuestDB
11 January 2021, Towards Data Science

QuestDB snares $12M Series A with hosted version coming soon
3 November 2021, TechCrunch

Comparing Different Time-Series Databases
10 February 2022, hackernoon.com

Q&A: Nicolas Hourcard, QuestDB: The advantages of a time-series database
3 December 2020, Developer News

Aquis Exchange Goes Live With QuestDB For Real Time Monitoring
2 November 2022, FinanceFeeds

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Present your product here