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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Axibase

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­simpledbaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­finance
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledb
Developer4D, IncAlibabaAmazonAxibase Corporation
Initial release198420072013
Current releasev20, April 202315585
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationno
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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