DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Doris vs. atoti vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Doris vs. atoti vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#235	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#253	Overall
	#13	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.82
Rank	#65	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.4d.com

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

atoti.io

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

docs.atoti.io

docs.datastax.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

ActiveViam

DataStax

Microsoft

Initial release

1984

2017

2011

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.2.2, February 2023

6.8, April 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
MySQL client

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Python

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Licensing and pricing models

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