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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. ArcadeDB vs. Oracle vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Widely used RDBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

arcadedb.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Arcade Data

Oracle

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1984

1999

2021

1980

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

September 2021

23c, September 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

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

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

Java

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

multiple readers, single writer

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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