DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigObject vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigObject vs. Rockset

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

bigobject.io

rockset.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

docs.rockset.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Atos Convergence Creators

BigObject, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

1984

2012

2016

2015

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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