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DBMS > 4D vs. Hypertable vs. Linter vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Hypertable vs. Linter vs. SpatiaLite

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopRDBMS for high security requirementsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comlinter.ruwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer4D, IncHypertable Inc.relex.ruAlessandro Furieri
Initial release1984200919902008
Current releasev20, April 20230.9.8.11, March 20165.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLno
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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