DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Databend vs. Google BigQuery

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Databend vs. Google BigQuery

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

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

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#287	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.databend.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Databend Labs

Google

Initial release

1984

2016

2021

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.0.59, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

hosted
Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Java

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.