DBMS > 4D vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hyprcubd vs. MonetDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hyprcubd vs. MonetDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Serverless Time Series DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.monetdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

4D, Inc

Google

Hyprcubd, Inc.

MonetDB BV

SAP

Initial release

1984

2010

2004

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC (https)

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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