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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. Atos Standard Common Repository

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Name

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Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Atos Convergence Creators

Initial release

1984

2012

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

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
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL for querying

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

LDAP

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

All languages with LDAP bindings

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

cell division

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

LDAP bind authentication

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