DBMS > 4D vs. NSDb vs. RRDtool vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. NSDb vs. RRDtool vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

nsdb.io

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Tobias Oetiker

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

2017

1999

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

in-process shared library
Pipes

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java
Scala

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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