DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

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

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore 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

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

help.sap.com/hana

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Teradata

Initial release

1984

2016

2010

2008

2005

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

in Aster File Store

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

LDAP

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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