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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

help.sap.com/hana

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

SAP

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

1984

1999

2010

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

64 bit version required

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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