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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. KairosDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

kairosdb.github.io

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1984

2014

2012

2013

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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