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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FatDB vs. ReductStore

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Name	4D former name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparison	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	FatDB  Xexclude from comparison	ReductStore  Xexclude from comparison
			FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
Description	Application development environment with integrated database management system	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.	Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Document store Key-value store	Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.47 Rank #110   Overall #54   Relational DBMS	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS		Score 0.05 Rank #384   Overall #44   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.4d.com	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql		github.com/­reductstore www.reduct.store
Technical documentation	developer.4d.com	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview		www.reduct.store/­docs
Developer	4D, Inc	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	FatCloud	ReductStore LLC
Initial release	1984	2016	2012	2023
Current release	v20, April 2023			1.9, March 2024
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	Open Source Business Source License 1.1
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language			C#	C++, Rust
Server operating systems	OS X Windows	hosted	Windows	Docker Linux macOS Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	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	yes
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes close to SQL 92	yes	no Via inetgration in SQL Server
APIs and other access methods	ODBC RESTful HTTP API by using 4D Mobile SOAP webservices	JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API LINQ RESTful HTTP API RPC Windows WCF Bindings	HTTP API
Supported programming languages	4D proprietary IDE PHP	C Java Perl Python R	C#	C++ JavaScript (Node.js) Python Rust
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	yes	yes via applications
Triggers	yes	yes	yes via applications
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	selectable replication factor
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	yes
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no
User concepts Access control	Users and groups	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no Can implement custom security layer via applications
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	4D former name: 4th Dimension	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	FatDB	ReductStore
DB-Engines blog posts	MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking 2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger show all
Recent citations in the news		Alibaba Cloud upgrades AnalyticDB with vector database engine 25 July 2023, CloudTech News Two Critical Flaws Found in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL Databases 20 April 2023, The Hacker News Accidental ‘write’ Permissions In Alibaba PostgreSQL Let Attackers Access Sensitive Data 22 April 2023, GBHackers Two critical vulnerabilities spotted in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL databases 21 April 2023, TEISS Alibaba Cloud ignites AI innovation in Singapore with recent hackathon | KrASIA 27 March 2024, KrASIA provided by Google News

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