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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
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 dataDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgquasar.aiterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdoc.quasar.ai/­masterterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, IncAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsquasardbDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19842007201220092018
Current releasev20, April 202329.0.1, April 20243.14.1, January 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoconsistent hashingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient mode
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 systemCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole-based access control

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