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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. VelocityDB

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Name	4D former name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparison	Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	VelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Application development environment with integrated database management system	MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.47 Rank #110   Overall #54   Relational DBMS	Score 0.84 Rank #209   Overall #98   Relational DBMS		Score 0.11 Rank #354   Overall #37   Graph DBMS #15   Object oriented DBMS
Website	www.4d.com	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcompute	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	velocitydb.com
Technical documentation	developer.4d.com	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcompute		velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Developer	4D, Inc	Alibaba	Sybase, SAP	VelocityDB Inc
Initial release	1984	2016	1993	2011
Current release	v20, April 2023			7.x
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language				C#
Server operating systems	OS X Windows	hosted	Linux Windows	Any that supports .NET
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes close to SQL 92	SQL-like query language	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	ODBC RESTful HTTP API by using 4D Mobile SOAP webservices	Fluentd Flume MaxCompute Console	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	.Net
Supported programming languages	4D proprietary IDE PHP	Java	Delphi Perl PHP	.Net
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	user defined functions in Java	yes	no
Triggers	yes	no	yes	Callbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	Users and groups	Access rights for users and roles	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Based on Windows Authentication
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	4D former name: 4th Dimension	Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	VelocityDB
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