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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Valentina Server

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Name

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.

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

drill.apache.org

druid.apache.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

drill.apache.org/docs

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1984

2012

1999

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

yes

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C++

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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