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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Druid vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	8.50
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

druid.apache.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1984

2015

2012

2008

Current release

v20, April 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

yes

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

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