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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GigaSpaces vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.gigaspaces.com

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

4D, Inc

Gigaspaces Technologies

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP

Initial release

1984

2000

2011

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

15.5, September 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

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

Role-based access control

yes

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