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DBMS > 4D vs. Hyprcubd vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Hyprcubd vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemServerless Time Series DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.postgres-xl.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­hanawww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer4D, IncHyprcubd, Inc.SAPAlessandro Furieri
Initial release19842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20102008
Current releasev20, April 202310 R1, October 20182.0 SPS07 (AprilĀ 4, 2023), April 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageGoCC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Appliance or cloud-serviceserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
gRPC (https)ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsSQLScript, Rno
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoMVCCACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupstoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno

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