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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB

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Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.13
Rank	#114	Overall
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Score	14.07
Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.11
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

machbase.com

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

machbase.com/dbms

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Machbase

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

1984

2012

2013

1984

Current release

v20, April 2023

V8.0, August 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

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

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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