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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Splunk vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.splunk.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

SAP, Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

1987

2003

1998

Current release

v20, April 2023

16.0

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

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)

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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