DBMS > 4D vs. Adabas vs. GigaSpaces vs. H2GIS vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. GigaSpaces vs. H2GIS vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Spatial extension of H2

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.softwareag.com/en_corporate/platform/adabas-natural.html

www.gigaspaces.com

www.h2gis.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

4D, Inc

Software AG

Gigaspaces Technologies

CNRS

SAP

Initial release

1984

1971

2000

2013

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

15.5, September 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Natural

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in Natural

yes

based on H2

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

based on H2

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

Role-based access control

yes

based on H2

yes

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