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DBMS > 4D vs. Adabas vs. Apache Pinot vs. NSDb vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. Apache Pinot vs. NSDb vs. OpenEdge

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  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 platformRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlpinot.apache.orgnsdb.iowww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.pinot.apache.orgnsdb.io/­Architecturedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
Developer4D, IncSoftware AGApache Software Foundation and contributorsProgress Software Corporation
Initial release19841971201520171984
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.0, September 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes 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
JDBCgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
NaturalGo
Java
Python
Java
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin Naturalnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas Vistahorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Users and groups

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