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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A 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 warehousing

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Java
PHP
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica 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
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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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