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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.92
Rank#119  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score14.12
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#354  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#115  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­redshiftmachbase.commaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftmachbase.com/­dbmsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
Developer4D, IncAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)MachbaseSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release1984201220131984
Current releasev20, April 2023V8.0, August 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageCCC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Pythonnoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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