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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

alasql.org

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

SAP

Initial release

1984

2014

2000

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Access control via Jena Security

yes

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