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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Bangdb vs. SwayDB

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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.

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

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

bangdb.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

docs.bangdb.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1984

2012

2018

Current release

v20, April 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Scala

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

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