DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

iotdb.apache.org

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Percona

Transwarp

Initial release

1984

2012

2018

2008

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1.0, April 2023

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

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

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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