DBMS > 4D vs. dBASE vs. Memgraph vs. MySQL vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. dBASE vs. Memgraph vs. MySQL vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

memgraph.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/hana

Social network pages

Developer

4D, Inc

Asthon Tate

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP

Initial release

1984

1979

2017

1995

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes

proprietary syntax

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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