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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AntDB vs. MaxDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

maxdb.sap.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

4D, Inc

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

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

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1984

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL2016 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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