DBMS > 4D vs. Firebolt vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Firebolt vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
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Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.firebolt.io

rocksdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.firebolt.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

1984

2020

2013

1999

Current release

v20, April 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

depending on storage layer

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

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