DBMS > 4D vs. Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Lovefield vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Lovefield vs. SurrealDB

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Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
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Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
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Website

www.4d.com

www.softwareag.com/en_corporate/platform/adabas-natural.html

aws.amazon.com/redshift

google.github.io/lovefield

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Software AG

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1984

1971

2012

2014

2022

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Natural

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

JavaScript

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in Natural

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vista

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

none

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

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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