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DBMS > 4D vs. Adabas vs. Apache Drill vs. FatDB vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. Apache Drill vs. FatDB vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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 platformSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Document store
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
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmldrill.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdrill.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
Developer4D, IncSoftware AGApache Software FoundationFatCloudIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release19841971201220122010
Current releasev20, April 20231.20.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC#Erlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windowshosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantno 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
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
NaturalC++C#C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin Naturaluser defined functionsyes infovia applicationsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes infovia applicationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoDepending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Depending on the underlying data sourceno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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