DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SAP HANA vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SAP HANA vs. WakandaDB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

help.sap.com/hana

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

SAP

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1984

2016

2008

2010

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes, details here

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

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

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