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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Bangdb vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

bangdb.com

maxdb.sap.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.bangdb.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

4D, Inc

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

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

Microsoft

Initial release

1984

2012

1984

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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