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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. mSQL

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­documentdbiotdb.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.html
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationHughes Technologies
Initial release1984201920181994
Current releasev20, April 20231.1.0, April 20234.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
Native API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)Integration with Hadoop and Sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesyesno

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