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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Kylin vs. IRONdb vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Kylin vs. IRONdb vs. ToroDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 warehousingA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputekylin.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputekylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
Developer4D, IncAlibabaApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncCirconus LLC.8Kdata
Initial release19842016201520172016
Current releasev20, April 20233.1.0, July 2020V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javayes, in Lua
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
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 groupsAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users and roles

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