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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Elasticsearch vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Elasticsearch vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricOracles in-memory data grid solutionThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial 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
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffElasticOracleSAP, Sybase
Initial release19842014201020071987
Current releasev20, April 20238.6, January 202314.1, August 202316.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScript.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnoJava and Transact-SQL
Triggersyesyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyesyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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