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DBMS > 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Blueflood vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Blueflood vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLA real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#320  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.92
Rank#195  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlblueflood.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combitnine.net/­documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
Developer4D, IncBitnine Global Inc.AlibabaRackspaceSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release1984201620131992
Current releasev20, April 20232.1, December 201817, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Cypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAgensGraphAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLBluefloodSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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