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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. Hypertable vs. SWC-DB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

drill.apache.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Hypertable Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Transwarp

Initial release

1984

2012

2009

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Depending on the underlying data source

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