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DBMS > 4D vs. Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Machbase Neo vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. Bangdb vs. Machbase Neo vs. Riak KV

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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 graphTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score3.17
Rank#94  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlbangdb.commachbase.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.bangdb.commachbase.com/­dbmswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
Developer4D, IncSoftware AGSachin Sinha, BangDBMachbaseOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release19841971201220132009
Current releasev20, April 2023BangDB 2.0, October 2021V8.0, August 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++CErlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaySQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query languageno
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
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
NaturalC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin NaturalnonoErlang
Triggersyesnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
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 algorithmShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
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)selectable replication factorselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellnoyes
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 infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)yes (enterprise version only)simple password-based access controlyes, using Riak Security

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