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DBMS > 4D vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Ingres vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Ingres vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemCloud-based data warehousing serviceWell established RDBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, IncIBMActian CorporationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release198420141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2018
Current releasev20, April 202312.0, July 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
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.yesno infoImport/export of XML data possibleno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPL/SQL, SQL PLyesyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesIngres ReplicatorJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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