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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. RisingWave vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#237	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.risingwave.com/database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

siridb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.siridb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

4D, Inc

RisingWave Labs

SAP

formerly Sybase

Cesbit

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1984

2022

1992

2017

1987

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.2, September 2023

17, July 2015

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

Numeric data

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

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Users and Roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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