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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. H2 vs. Heroic

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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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.h2database.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Thomas Mueller

Spotify

Initial release

1984

2016

2005

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

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

JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Java

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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