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DBMS > 4D vs. FatDB vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FatDB vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TDengine

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comquestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comquestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.tdengine.com
Developer4D, IncFatCloudQuestDB Technology IncSAPTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release19842012201420102019
Current releasev20, April 20232.0 SPS07 (AprilĀ 4, 2023), April 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC#Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Appliance or cloud-serviceLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
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 92no infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL with time-series extensionsyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsnoSQLScript, Rno
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsnoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)yesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyesyes
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionFatDBQuestDBSAP HANATDengine
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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TDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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