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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. KairosDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.postgres-xl.org

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

kairosdb.github.io

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

4D, Inc

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

1984

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

10 R1, October 2018

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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