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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. Geode vs. Riak TS vs. Sequoiadb

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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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#104	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

geode.apache.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

geode.apache.org/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

4D, Inc

Software AG

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1984

1971

2002

2015

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1, February 2017

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

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

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Natural

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in Natural

user defined functions

Erlang

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Document is locked during a transaction

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)

Access rights per client and object definable

simple password-based access control

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