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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. PostgreSQL vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	645.05
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

www.postgresql.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.postgresql.org/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

4D, Inc

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

SiteWhere

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1984

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2010

2003

Current release

v20, April 2023

16.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

standard with numerous extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

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

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles

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