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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MonetDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA multi-model DBMS and application serverA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­redshiftgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.heavy.aidocs.intersystems.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
Developer4D, IncAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)HEAVY.AI, Inc.InterSystemsMonetDB BV
Initial release19842012201619972004
Current releasev20, April 20235.10, January 20222018.1.4, May 2020Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++ and CUDAC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesrestrictednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyesyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Pythonnoyesyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate 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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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