DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.datastax.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

DataStax

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

1984

2016

2011

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

6.8, April 2020

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

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

yes, with always 3 replicas available

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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