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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

impala.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Esgyn

Kyligence, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2013

2015

2016

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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-like DML and DDL statements

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java Stored Procedures

JavaScript

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

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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