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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Rockset

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlaws.amazon.com/­documentdbhsqldb.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.rockset.com
Developer4D, IncAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupRockset
Initial release19842016201920012019
Current releasev20, April 20232.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoJava, SQLno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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