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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Cubrid vs. Sphinx

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­documentdbcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputeaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcescubrid.org/­manualssphinxsearch.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncAlibabaCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release19842016201920082001
Current releasev20, April 202311.0, January 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languagenoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin JavanoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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