DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

1984

1999

2012

2013

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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