DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Derby vs. SAP HANA vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Derby vs. SAP HANA vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
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Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

db.apache.org/derby

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1984

1997

2010

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java
Python

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

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