DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

brytlyt.io

www.hawkular.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.brytlyt.io

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Brytlyt

Community supported by Red Hat

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1984

2016

2014

2018

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

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