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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SQream DB vs. STSdb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA widely adopted in-memory data gridMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comhazelcast.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serversqream.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.sqream.com
Developer4D, IncHazelcastMicrosoftSQream TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release19842008198920172011
Current releasev20, April 20235.3.6, November 2023SQL Server 2022, November 20222022.1.6, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javauser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoReplicated Mapyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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