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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GBase vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.gbase.cn

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1984

2016

2004

2006

Current release

v20, April 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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