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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EsgynDB vs. mSQL vs. TerarkDB vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.39
Rank	#269	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.esgyn.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Esgyn

Hughes Technologies

ByteDance, originally Terark

Yandex

Initial release

1984

2015

1994

2016

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Active-passive shard replication

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

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 defined for Yandex Cloud users

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