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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.92
Rank#119  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score75.58
Rank#16  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score1.41
Rank#149  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#311  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score35.22
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbiotdb.apache.orgwww.openpie.comwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlhelp.sap.com/­hana
Developer4D, IncAmazonApache Software FoundationOpenPieSAP
Initial release1984201220182010
Current releasev20, April 20231.1.0, April 20232.1, January 20232.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno infoalso available as a cloud based service
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)hostedAppliance or cloud-service
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesuser defined functionsSQLScript, R
Triggersyesyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)yesyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)Integration with Hadoop and Sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAmazon DynamoDBApache IoTDBPieCloudDBSAP HANA
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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