DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. NSDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. NSDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

SAP

formerly Sybase

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1984

2012

2017

1992

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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