DBMS > 4D vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Interbase vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Interbase vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Primary database model

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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Score	2.79
Rank	#109	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#253	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.39
Rank	#68	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	54.96
Rank	#21	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

iotdb.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

livedoc.4d.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Embarcadero

SAP

Initial release

1984

2018

1984

2010

Current release

v18 R5, January 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.0 SPS05 (June 26, 2020), June 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

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

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

Apache IoTDB (Internet of Things Database) is a time series data management system...
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Competitive advantages

Low Cost and High Performance Tens of million points write throughput High compression...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT / IIoT End-Edge-Cloud Collaboration Real-Time and Historian Time Series Analytics
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Key customers

Over 200 customers worldwide, including Bosch, Siemens, Komat'su, Alibaba, etc.
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Market metrics

185+ contributors and 10,000+ times monthly clones on GitHub Rank 7 by commits among...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source: Apache License v2.0 Pricing for commercial-/cloud-/edge-edition provided...
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