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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. HyperSQL vs. NuoDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

hsqldb.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

4D, Inc

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

1984

2001

2013

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

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