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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsiridb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­spanner/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.siridb.com
Developer4D, IncAlibabaGoogleSAP infoformerly SybaseCesbit
Initial release19842016201719922017
Current releasev20, April 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javanoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts

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