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DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. TinkerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSSpatial extension of H2Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasetinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Developer4D, IncAltibaseCNRSEmbarcadero
Initial release19841999201319842009
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
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.yesnonono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92yesyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsyes infobased on H2yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes infobased on H2Interbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMultiversion concurreny controlno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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