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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Brytlyt vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Brytlyt vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  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.Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.92
Rank#195  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#292  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlbrytlyt.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
google.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.brytlyt.iodocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
Developer4D, IncAlibabaBrytlytHEAVY.AI, Inc.Google
Initial release1984201620162014
Current releasev20, April 20235.0, August 20235.10, January 20222.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAC++ and CUDAJavaScript
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyesyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLnono
TriggersyesyesyesnoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLBrytlytHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022Lovefield
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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