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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. HyperSQL vs. LeanXcale vs. Machbase Neo vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

machbase.com/dbms

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

4D, Inc

LeanXcale

Machbase

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

1984

2001

2015

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

V8.0, August 2023

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free test version available

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

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

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Licensing and pricing models

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