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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Graphite vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#75	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Chris Davis

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1984

1999

2006

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Python

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Unix

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Sockets

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

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

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