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DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.87
Rank#200  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.comrocksdb.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, IncAltibaseFacebook, Inc.TeradataDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19841999201320052018
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 20239.4.0, June 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesnonoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92noyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsnoR packagesyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyesyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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