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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. ClickHouse vs. Coveo

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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.

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.92
Rank	#195	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#116	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

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

clickhouse.com

www.coveo.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.coveo.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Clickhouse Inc.

Coveo

Initial release

1984

2016

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Java
PHP
Python

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

key based and custom

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

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