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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. InfluxDB vs. Rockset vs. Speedb vs. TerarkDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewrockset.comwww.speedb.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.rockset.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
Developer4D, IncRocksetSpeedbByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release19842013201920202016
Current releasev20, April 20232.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsdynamic typingnono
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.yesnono infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyesno
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 infoDepending on used storage engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupssimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenono
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionInfluxDBRocksetSpeedbTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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