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DBMS > 4D vs. IRONdb vs. MySQL vs. QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IRONdb vs. MySQL vs. QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityWidely used open source RDBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APITime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.mysql.comquestdb.iowww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddev.mysql.com/­docquestdb.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
Developer4D, IncCirconus LLC.Oracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunQuestDB Technology IncSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release19842017199520142013
Current releasev20, April 2023V0.10.20, January 20188.4.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luayes infoproprietary syntaxnoJavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabrichorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID for single-table writesDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
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.nonoyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolessimple password-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionIRONdbMySQLQuestDBSequoiadb
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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