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DBMS > 4D vs. Adabas vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. FatDB vs. HugeGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. FatDB vs. HugeGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchhugegraph.apache.org/­docs
Developer4D, IncSoftware AGAmazonFatCloudBaidu
Initial release19841971201220122018
Current releasev20, April 20230.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC#Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedWindowsLinux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewaynono infoVia inetgration in SQL Serverno
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
HTTP API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
NaturalC#Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin Naturalnoyes infovia applicationsasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersyesnonoyes infovia applicationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistayes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, with add-on product Event Replicatoryes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesvia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)authentication via encrypted signaturesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsUsers, roles and permissions

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