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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. Hypertable

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 warehousingdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSWide column store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputehive.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
Developer4D, IncAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHypertable Inc.
Initial release1984201620122009
Current releasev20, April 20233.1.3, April 20220.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javayes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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