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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Brytlyt vs. Ehcache vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

brytlyt.io

www.ehcache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.brytlyt.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

4D, Inc

Brytlyt

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

SAP

Initial release

1984

2016

2009

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.0, August 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JCache

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

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 (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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