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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. Cassandra

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments info

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB info

Optimized for write access

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Wide column store

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Score	2.64
Rank	#110	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	5.11
Rank	#75	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	118.84
Rank	#10	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Website

www.4d.com

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

cassandra.apache.org

Technical documentation

livedoc.4d.com

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

Developer

4D, Inc

Software AG

Apache Software Foundation info

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Initial release

1984

1971

2008

Current release

v18.1, March 2020

3.11.8, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

restricted info

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API info

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API info

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

Proprietary protocol info

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Natural

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

in Natural

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

selectable replication factor info

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

User concepts info

Access control

Users and groups

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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