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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Postgres-XL vs. RisingWave vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.postgres-xl.org

www.risingwave.com/database

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

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

Developer

4D, Inc

RisingWave Labs

Transwarp

Initial release

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2022

Current release

v20, April 2023

10 R1, October 2018

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source 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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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

Users and Roles

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