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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. OpenTSDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name	4D former name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparison	Adabas denotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparison	OpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Yaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
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	Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase	OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Multivalue DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.79 Rank #108   Overall #56   Relational DBMS	Score 4.77 Rank #79   Overall #1   Multivalue DBMS	Score 1.96 Rank #124   Overall #8   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.00 Rank #356   Overall #155   Relational DBMS
Website	www.4d.com	www.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.html	opentsdb.net	yaacomo.com
Technical documentation	livedoc.4d.com		opentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
Developer	4D, Inc	Software AG	currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors	Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release	1984	1971	2011	2009
Current release	v18 R5, January 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source LGPL	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language			Java
Server operating systems	OS X Windows	BS2000 Linux Unix Windows z/OS z/VSE	Linux Windows	Android Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	numeric data for metrics, strings for tags	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	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes close to SQL 92	yes with add-on product Adabas SQL Gateway	no	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	HTTP API Telnet API	JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	4D proprietary IDE PHP	Natural	Erlang Go Java Python R Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	in Natural	no
Triggers	yes	no	no	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	Sharding based on HBase	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication	yes, with add-on product Event Replicator	selectable replication factor based on HBase	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency based on HBase	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no	yes
User concepts Access control	Users and groups	only with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	4D former name: 4th Dimension	Adabas denotes "adaptable data base"	OpenTSDB	Yaacomo
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