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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. CrateDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. jBASE vs. SAP HANA

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDistributed Database based on LuceneHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comcratedb.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comcratedb.com/­docsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9help.sap.com/­hana
Developer4D, IncCrateGigaspaces TechnologiesRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)SAP
Initial release19842013200019912010
Current releasev20, April 202315.5, September 20205.72.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoalso available as a cloud based service
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Appliance or cloud-service
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL-99 for query and DML statementsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions (Javascript)yesyesSQLScript, R
Triggersyesnoyes, event driven architectureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsrights management via user accountsRole-based access controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionCrateDBGigaSpacesjBASESAP HANA
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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