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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. Bangdb

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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

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#175	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#334	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org

bangdb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.bangdb.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Initial release

1984

2012

2015

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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

yes, optimistic concurrency control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

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