DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. Prometheus

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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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

1984

2016

2012

1983

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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