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DBMS > 4D vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiteWhere vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiteWhere vs. Transbase

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer4D, IncMicrosoftSAP, SybaseSiteWhereTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19842015198720101987
Current releasev20, April 2023V116.0Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava and Transact-SQLyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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