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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Adabas vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

OLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments info

used typically together with the Natural programming platform

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store info

with Oracle Spatial and Graph

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Score	2.68
Rank	#95	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	4.66
Rank	#68	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1346.68
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.softwareag.com/corporate/products/adabas_natural/adabas/default.html

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

doc.4d.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

4D, Inc

Software AG

Oracle

Initial release

1984

1971

1980

Current release

v17.0, July 2018

19c, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial info

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API info

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API info

with add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Natural

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

in Natural

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

horizontal partitioning info

with the optional Oracle Partitioning

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-master replication

yes, with add-on product Event Replicator

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts info

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

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