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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FatDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TimesTen vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#15	Vector DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

FatCloud

SAP, Sybase

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

2012

1987

1998

2023

Current release

v20, April 2023

16.0

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Java and Transact-SQL

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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