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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgdruid.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoft
Initial release1984201420122010
Current releasev20, April 202329.0.1, April 2024V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoTransact SQL
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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