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DBMS > 4D vs. etcd vs. NuoDB vs. Pinecone vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. etcd vs. NuoDB vs. Pinecone vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA distributed reliable key-value storeNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.cometcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.pinecone.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.cometcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
doc.nuodb.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
Developer4D, IncDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Pinecone Systems, IncSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release1984201320191992
Current releasev20, April 20233.4, August 201917, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
PythonC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava, SQLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesyes, watching key changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.nonoyes infoTemporary tablenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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