DBMS > 4D vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL vs. Pinecone vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL vs. Pinecone vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.pinecone.io

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1984

1989

1994

2019

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.4, October 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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