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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Cachelot.io vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Cachelot.io vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphIn-memory caching systemThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
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
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgbangdb.comcachelot.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bangdb.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSachin Sinha, BangDBSAP, Sybase
Initial release19842014201220151987
Current releasev20, April 2023BangDB 2.0, October 202116.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL like support with command line toolnoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoJava and Transact-SQL
Triggersyesyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoyes (enterprise version only)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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