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DBMS > 4D vs. Hive vs. MaxDB vs. Trafodion

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comhive.apache.orgmaxdb.sap.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homemaxdb.sap.com/­documentationtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release1984201219842014
Current releasev20, April 20233.1.3, April 20227.9.10.12, February 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 groupsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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