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DBMS > 4D vs. Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Lovefield vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Lovefield vs. SurrealDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 platformConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlbangdb.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bangdb.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdsurrealdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncSoftware AGSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release19841971201220142022
Current releasev20, April 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20212.1.12, February 2017v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaScriptRust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query language
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
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
NaturalC
C#
C++
Java
Python
JavaScriptDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin Naturalnono
Triggersyesnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)Using read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes, run db with in-memory only modeyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)yes (enterprise version only)noyes, based on authentication and database rules

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