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DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. IBM Db2 vs. jBASE vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. IBM Db2 vs. jBASE vs. OrigoDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseorigodb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9origodb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncAltibaseIBMRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Robert Friberg et al
Initial release198419991983 infohost version19912009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 202312.1, October 20165.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.yesnoyesno infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92yesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsyesyesyes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole based authorization

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