DBMS > 4D vs. KairosDB vs. Realm vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. KairosDB vs. Realm vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Spatial extension of SQLite

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

realm.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

kairosdb.github.io

realm.io/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Alessandro Furieri

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

2013

2014

2008

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

5.0.0, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

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

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.

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

simple password-based access control

yes

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