DBMS > 4D vs. Adabas vs. GBase vs. RocksDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. GBase vs. RocksDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.17
Rank	#94	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.gbase.cn

rocksdb.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Software AG

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Facebook, Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1984

1971

2004

2013

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

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
C API
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Natural

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in Natural

user defined functions

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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