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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Cloud-based data warehousing service

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.34
Rank	#166	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	2.65
Rank	#111	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

cassandra.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

IBM

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

Initial release

1984

2008

2014

1984

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single 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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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