DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. Blueflood

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. Blueflood

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Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
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	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

drill.apache.org

blueflood.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

drill.apache.org/docs

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Rackspace

Initial release

1984

2012

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

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

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

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