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DBMS > 4D vs. Adabas vs. Altibase vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. Altibase vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. OpenEdge

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlaltibase.comcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
Developer4D, IncSoftware AGAltibaseCambridge SemanticsProgress Software Corporation
Initial release19841971199920181984
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 20232.3, January 2021OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewayANSI SQL-92SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
NaturalC
C++
Java
C++
Java
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin Naturalstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions and aggregatesyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatoryesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoKerberos/HDFS data loadingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infonot needed in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesUsers and groups

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