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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AntDB vs. eXtremeDB

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Name

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.mcobject.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

Social network pages

Developer

4D, Inc

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

McObject

Initial release

1984

2001

Current release

v20, April 2023

8.2, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
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

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL2016 compliant

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

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Specific characteristics

AntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantages

HTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenarios

As the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

More than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing models

Certificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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