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

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

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

1984

2016

2010

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Strong typed schema

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

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

LDAP

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

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