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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. TimesTen vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. TimesTen vs. Tkrzw

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmldbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer4D, IncAlibabaIBMOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release1984201719982020
Current releasev20, April 20232.011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)0.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesPL/SQLno
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceActive-active shard replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes infousing specific database classes
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
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLIBM Db2 Event StoreTimesTenTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
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