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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. QuestDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 warehousingFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgecloud.google.com/­bigtablequestdb.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
Developer4D, IncAlibabaFairCom CorporationGoogleQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release19842016197920152014
Current releasev20, April 2023V3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesnoyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageyes infoANSI SQL queriesnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javayes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infowhen using SQLnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDAtomic single-row operationsACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlibaba Cloud MaxComputeFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEGoogle Cloud BigtableQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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