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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegeode.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtable
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputegeode.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
Developer4D, IncAlibabaAlibabaOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Google
Initial release1984201620022015
Current releasev20, April 20231.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Java
PHP
Python
Java.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyes, on a single nodeAtomic single-row operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAlibaba Cloud MaxComputeGeodeGoogle Cloud Bigtable
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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