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DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. ArcadeDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. ArcadeDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiteWhere

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.80
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.21
Rank#182  Overall
#83  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#351  Overall
#49  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#52  Key-value stores
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score37.49
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#381  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.comarcadedb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.arcadedb.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Developer4D, IncAltibaseArcade DataSAP, SybaseSiteWhere
Initial release19841999202119872010
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 2023September 202116.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyespredefined scheme
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92SQL-like query language, no joinsyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
JavaC
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsJava and Transact-SQL
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationship in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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