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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Ultipa

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

4D, Inc

Sybase, SAP

Ultipa

Initial release

1984

1993

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Delphi
Perl
PHP

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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