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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  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 systemPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.jaguardb.commaxdb.sap.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developer4D, IncDataJaguar, Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release1984201519842014
Current releasev20, April 20233.3 July 20237.9.10.12, February 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes 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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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