DBMS > 4D vs. H2 vs. Realm vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2 vs. Realm vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.h2database.com

realm.io

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

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

4D, Inc

Thomas Mueller

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

1984

2005

2014

1987

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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