DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. CrateDB vs. Google BigQuery

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. CrateDB vs. Google BigQuery

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Name

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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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#229	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

cratedb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cratedb.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Atos Convergence Creators

Crate

Google

Initial release

1984

2016

2013

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions (Javascript)

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

LDAP bind authentication

rights management via user accounts

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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