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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

druid.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1984

2012

2016

1987

Current release

v20, April 2023

30.0.0, June 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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