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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. EJDB vs. LMDB

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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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Primary database model

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.lmdb.tech/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

Software AG

Softmotions

Symas

Initial release

1984

1971

2012

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

0.9.32, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

server-less

Linux
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

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

in-process shared library

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Natural

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in Natural

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

none

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

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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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