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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Immudb vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.immudb.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

4D, Inc

Codenotary

SAP

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

2020

2010

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.2.3, April 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

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