DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Graphite vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Graphite vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.13
Rank	#114	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#217	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	4.91
Rank	#64	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	39.10
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#350	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

graphite.readthedocs.io

help.sap.com/hana

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Chris Davis

SAP

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

2016

2006

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Unix

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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