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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NuoDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	19.93
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Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

doc.nuodb.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1984

2016

2013

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Java
PHP

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

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