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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. BigObject vs. SWC-DB

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Name

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.13
Rank	#114	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.54
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.4d.com

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

bigobject.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.bigobject.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Software AG

BigObject, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1984

1971

2015

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Natural

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in Natural

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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

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