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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Badger vs. MaxDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.88
Rank#114  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#371  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score3.37
Rank#102  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgermaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationlivedoc.4d.comgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgermaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
Developer4D, IncDGraph LabsSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release198420171984
Current releasev18 R5, January 20217.9.10 (January 2020), 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageGoC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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