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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. gStore vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. gStore vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
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
Score2.13
Rank#114  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.74
Rank#134  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.02
Rank#372  Overall
#38  Graph DBMS
#19  RDF stores
Score39.10
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#362  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledben.gstore.cnwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledben.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocshelp.sap.com/­hana
Developer4D, IncAmazonSAPSTS Soft SC
Initial release19842007201620102011
Current releasev20, April 20231.2, November 20232.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageC++C#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAppliance or cloud-serviceWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesSQLScript, Rno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationyesACIDno
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedyesno

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