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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Hypertable vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Hypertable vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded 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.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopAnalytics Platform for Big DataTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.splunk.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunktrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developer4D, IncAlibabaHypertable Inc.Splunk Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release1984200920032014
Current releasev20, April 20230.9.8.11, March 20162.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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