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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Graphite vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SiteWhere

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA multi-model DBMS and application serverM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.intersystems.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Developer4D, IncAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupChris DavisInterSystemsSiteWhere
Initial release19842016200619972010
Current releasev20, April 20232018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelpredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.yesyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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