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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. EXASOL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. EXASOL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Cloud-based data warehousing service
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdruid.apache.orgwww.exasol.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouse
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.exasol.com/­resources
Developer4D, IncAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software Foundation and contributorsExasolIBM
Initial release19842012201220002014
Current releasev20, April 202329.0.1, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL for queryingyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Pythonnouser defined functionsPL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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