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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. IRONdb vs. Netezza vs. SAP IQ

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Name

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

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

Circonus LLC.

IBM

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1984

2016

2017

2000

1994

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

V0.10.20, January 2018

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

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 and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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

text, numeric, histograms

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 (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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