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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.19
Rank#176  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#378  Overall
#51  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqliotdb.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlorigodb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupApache Software FoundationHughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et al
Initial release19842016201819942009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current releasev20, April 20231.1.0, April 20234.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesnoyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)nonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoRole based authorization

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