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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

phoenix.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

phoenix.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Oracle

Initial release

1984

2014

1984

2007

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

7.9.10.12, February 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

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

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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