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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. Cubrid vs. searchxml vs. XTDB

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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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.79
Rank	#102	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

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

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

cubrid.org/manuals

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Software AG

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

informationpartners gmbh

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1984

1971

2008

2015

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

11.0, January 2021

1.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Natural

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in Natural

Java Stored Procedures

yes

on the application server

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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