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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQream DB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryA multi-model DBMS and application serverThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial 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
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlsqream.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.intersystems.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEdocs.sqream.com
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffInterSystemsSAP, SybaseSQream Technologies
Initial release19842014199719872017
Current releasev20, April 20232018.1.4, May 202016.02022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptC#
C++
Java
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesJava and Transact-SQLuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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