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DBMS > 4D vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB vs. TerarkDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB vs. TerarkDB vs. TimescaleDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.commachbase.commaxdb.sap.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.commachbase.com/­dbmsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.timescale.com
Developer4D, IncMachbaseSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997ByteDance, originally TerarkTimescale
Initial release19842013198420162017
Current releasev20, April 2023V8.0, August 20237.9.10.12, February 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++C
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageyesnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tablenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupssimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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