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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Kylin vs. Atos Standard Common Repository

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Kylin vs. Atos Standard Common Repository

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbdruid.apache.orgkylin.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designkylin.apache.org/­docs
Developer4D, IncAlibabaApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncAtos Convergence Creators
Initial release1984201220152016
Current releasev20, April 202329.0.1, April 20243.1.0, July 20201703
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP views
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptional
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.yesyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesSQL for queryingANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
LDAP
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages with LDAP bindings
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infocell division
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of specific operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemLDAP bind authentication
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