DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

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Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Atos Convergence Creators

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

1984

2016

2010

1992

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Java
PHP
Python

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

cell division

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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