DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Snowflake vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. Snowflake vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Thomas Mueller

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1984

2014

2005

2014

2003

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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