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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Axibase vs. GigaSpaces vs. HBase

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.00
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#288  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.gigaspaces.comhbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.html
Developer4D, IncAltibaseAxibase CorporationGigaspaces TechnologiesApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release19841999201320002008
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 20231558515.5, September 20202.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageSQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsyesyesyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersyesyesyesyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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