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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EsgynDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Esgyn

Teradata

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1984

2016

2015

2005

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

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
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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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