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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. eXtremeDB vs. Heroic vs. Redis vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS

with Redis Modules
Search engine

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS

with Redis Modules

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Score	2.58
Rank	#109	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#208	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#241	Overall
	#16	Time Series DBMS

Score	155.01
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	6.30
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.mcobject.com/extremedbfamily

spotify.github.io/heroic/#!/index

redis.io

www.sap.com/products/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

livedoc.4d.com

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

spotify.github.io/heroic/#!/docs/overview

redis.io/documentation

help.sap.com/sql-anywhere

Developer

4D, Inc

McObject

Spotify

Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

1984

2001

2014

2009

1992

Current release

v18.1, March 2020

8.1, November 2019

6.0.10 , January 2021

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Redis Enterprise Cloud: Fully managed cloud service by the makers of Redis.

Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

with RediSearch module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

Simple password-based access control

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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