DBMS > 4D vs. Axibase vs. eXtremeDB vs. Oracle vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Axibase vs. eXtremeDB vs. Oracle vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Widely used RDBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.mcobject.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

4D, Inc

Axibase Corporation

McObject

Oracle

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

1984

2013

2001

1980

1992

Current release

v20, April 2023

15585

8.2, 2021

23c, September 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

restricted free version is available

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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