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DBMS > 4D vs. Adabas vs. Brytlyt vs. FatDB vs. HugeGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. Brytlyt vs. FatDB vs. HugeGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  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 platformScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Graph 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#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlbrytlyt.iogithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.brytlyt.iohugegraph.apache.org/­docs
Developer4D, IncSoftware AGBrytlytFatCloudBaidu
Initial release19841971201620122018
Current releasev20, April 20235.0, August 20230.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAC#Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL Gatewayyesno 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
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Natural.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
C#Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin Naturaluser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLyes infovia applicationsasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersyesnoyesyes infovia applicationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, with add-on product Event ReplicatorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesvia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsUsers, roles and permissions

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