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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. DataFS vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

machbase.com/dbms

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Mobiland AG

Machbase

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

Initial release

1984

2018

2013

1984

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

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

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

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

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

Windows-Profile

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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