DBMS > 4D vs. Lovefield vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Lovefield vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Google

SAP

formerly Sybase

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1984

2014

1992

2017

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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