DBMS > 4D vs. Hyprcubd vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Hyprcubd vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#124	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

4D, Inc

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

Initial release

1984

1999

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.8.0, 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

gRPC (https)

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

token access

yes

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