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DBMS > 4D vs. EXASOL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EXASOL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.exasol.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.heavy.ai
Developer4D, IncExasolHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hypertable Inc.
Initial release1984200020162009
Current releasev20, April 20235.10, January 20220.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionEXASOLHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022Hypertable
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