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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	4D former name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparison	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	InterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
			Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.	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	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	A multi-model DBMS and application server	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Document store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.47 Rank #110   Overall #54   Relational DBMS	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.4d.com	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	www.intersystems.com/­products/­cache	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	developer.4d.com	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	docs.intersystems.com
Developer	4D, Inc	Alibaba	InterSystems	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	1984		1997	1993
Current release	v20, April 2023		2018.1.4, May 2020
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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Server operating systems	OS X Windows	hosted	AIX HP Open VMS HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	depending on used data model	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	Numeric data and Strings	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	yes	no
Secondary indexes	yes	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes close to SQL 92	no	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	ODBC RESTful HTTP API by using 4D Mobile SOAP webservices	HTTP REST	.NET Client API JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	4D proprietary IDE PHP	Java	C# C++ Java	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	yes	yes
Triggers	yes	no	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none		none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication		Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	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	yes
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	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Users and groups	Access managed on TSDB instance level	Access rights for users, groups and roles	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	4D former name: 4th Dimension	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	InterSystems Caché	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
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