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DBMS > 4D vs. IBM Db2 vs. Riak TS vs. SQream DB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IBM Db2 vs. Riak TS vs. SQream DB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#15  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2sqream.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.sqream.com
Developer4D, IncIBMOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSQream Technologies
Initial release19841983 infohost version201520172023
Current releasev20, April 202312.1, October 20163.0.0, September 20222022.1.6, December 20221.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree version is availableOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL TypesVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesyesyesrestrictednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyes, limitedyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesErlanguser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infolinks between datasets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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