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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. SQream DB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTablea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.sqream.com
Developer4D, IncAlibabaCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSQream Technologies
Initial release19842016201420082017
Current releasev20, April 20232.3.4, January 20212022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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