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DBMS > 4D vs. IRONdb vs. JSqlDb vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IRONdb vs. JSqlDb vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/jsqldb.org (offline)machbase.commaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmachbase.com/­dbmsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
Developer4D, IncCirconus LLC.Konrad von BackstromMachbaseSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release19842017201820131984
Current releasev20, April 2023V0.10.20, January 20180.8, December 2018V8.0, August 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luafunctions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDBnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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