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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. searchxml

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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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Google

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1984

2016

2008

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Java

using Google App Engine

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

multiple readers, single writer

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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