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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Splice Machine vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Splice Machine vs. Trino

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score32.67
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#244  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score5.28
Rank#61  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlsplicemachine.comtrino.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEsplicemachine.com/­how-it-workstrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSAP, SybaseSplice MachineTrino Software Foundation
Initial release19842014198720142012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current releasev20, April 202316.03.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesdepending on connected data-source
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 APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptC
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava and Transact-SQLyes infoJavayes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesdepending on connected data-source
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 groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardSQL standard access control
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlaSQLSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASESplice MachineTrino
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