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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

splicemachine.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

help.sap.com/hana

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

4D, Inc

SAP

Splice Machine

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1984

2010

2014

2000

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.1, March 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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