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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. OpenEdge vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. OpenEdge vs. Splunk

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-serviceaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
Developer4D, IncAlibabaCloud Inc.AmazonProgress Software CorporationSplunk Inc.
Initial release19842016201219842003
Current releasev20, April 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL for queryingnoyes infoclose to SQL 92no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication3 replicasyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAlibaba Cloud user access controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlibaba Cloud Log ServiceAmazon CloudSearchOpenEdgeSplunk
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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