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DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. dBASE vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. dBASE vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality datadBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.comdruid.apache.orgwww.dbase.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaseterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, IncAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsAsthon TateDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19841999201219792018
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 202329.0.1, April 2024dBASE 2019, 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92SQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
dBase proprietary IDEJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access control

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