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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Coveo vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.coveo.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.coveo.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

4D, Inc

Coveo

SAP

Initial release

1984

2019

2012

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

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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Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

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

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

yes

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