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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Interbase

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.hawkular.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Developer4D, IncAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupAmazonCommunity supported by Red HatEmbarcadero
Initial release19842016201220141984
Current releasev20, April 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
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.yesyesnono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersyesyesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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