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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EJDB vs. Hypertable vs. Sadas Engine vs. Trafodion

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.sadasengine.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Softmotions

Hypertable Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1984

2012

2009

2006

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

8.0

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

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

in-process shared library

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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