DBMS > 4D vs. atoti vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. atoti vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP HANA

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Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

atoti.io

hazelcast.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.atoti.io

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

4D, Inc

ActiveViam

Hazelcast

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

1984

2008

2016

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

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

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Transact SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Replicated Map

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Role-based access control

yes

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