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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationWell established RDBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAxibase CorporationActian CorporationMicrosoft
Initial release1984201420131974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2016
Current releasev20, April 20231558511.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaCC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes
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.yesnonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyesTransact SQL
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationIngres Replicatoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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