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DBMS > 4D vs. Kinetica vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Kinetica vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#347  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.kinetica.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.kinetica.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Developer4D, IncKineticaTransaction Software GmbHVelocityDB Inc
Initial release1984201219872011
Current releasev20, April 20237.1, August 2021Transbase 8.3, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C and C++C#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
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 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACID
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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