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DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. TimesTen vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. TimesTen vs. TinkerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.combangdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.bangdb.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer4D, IncAltibaseSachin Sinha, BangDBOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19841999201219982009
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 2023BangDB 2.0, October 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92SQL like support with command line toolyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsnoPL/SQLno
Triggersyesyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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