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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Ingres vs. Interbase vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Well established RDBMS

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.teradata.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Actian Corporation

Embarcadero

Teradata

Initial release

1984

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1984

Current release

v20, April 2023

11.2, May 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Ingres Replicator

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
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

MVCC

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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