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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Kylin vs. BigObject vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Kylin vs. BigObject vs. ToroDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storekylin.apache.orgbigobject.iogithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorekylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.bigobject.io
Developer4D, IncAlibabaApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncBigObject, Inc.8Kdata
Initial release19842016201520152016
Current releasev20, April 20233.1.0, July 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoLua
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoAccess rights for users and roles

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