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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Apache Doris vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#244	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

1984

1999

2017

1995

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.2.2, February 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
MySQL client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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