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DBMS > 4D vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. QuestDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. QuestDB vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storequestdb.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storequestdb.io/­docs
Developer4D, IncIBMQuestDB Technology IncSimer Plaha
Initial release1984201720142018
Current releasev20, April 20232.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustScala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writesAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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