DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

raima.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqream.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.raima.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

Raima Inc.

SAP

SQream Technologies

Initial release

1984

2012

1984

2010

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

15, June 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

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

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

horizontal partitioning

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

managed transparently by AWS

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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)

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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News

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29 February 2024

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10 June 2021

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8 October 2020

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1 October 2020

Raima Expands Their Reseller Network in Asia
19 May 2020

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