DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. OpenQM vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. OpenQM vs. Trafodion

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Atos Convergence Creators

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1984

1999

2016

1993

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

3.4-12

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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