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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SiteWhere

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorygithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Developer4D, IncAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsAtos Convergence CreatorsSiteWhere
Initial release19842007201220162010
Current releasev20, April 202329.0.1, April 20241703
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewspredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesoptionalyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL for queryingnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
LDAPHTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages with LDAP bindings
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infocell divisionSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoAtomic execution of specific operationsno
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemLDAP bind authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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