DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	2.13
Rank	#114	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	72.39
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.10
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#194	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

kylin.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Gigaspaces Technologies

Hypertable Inc.

Initial release

1984

2012

2015

2000

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

15.5, September 2020

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor on file system level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

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