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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP HANA

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Name

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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SAP

Initial release

1984

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

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

Erlang

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

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