DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Drizzle vs. Informix vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Drizzle vs. Informix vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	17.12
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

www.ibm.com/products/informix

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

4D, Inc

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

SAP

Initial release

1984

2016

2008

1984

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

14.10.FC5, November 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++ and Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

JDBC

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

3 replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

A 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 models

Pay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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