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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GigaSpaces vs. SAP IQ

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

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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	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.gigaspaces.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

4D, Inc

Gigaspaces Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1984

2000

1994

Current release

v20, April 2023

15.5, September 2020

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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