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DBMS > 4D vs. eXtremeDB vs. MaxDB vs. Prometheus vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. eXtremeDB vs. MaxDB vs. Prometheus vs. Qdrant

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.13
Rank#114  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#189  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
#17  Time Series DBMS
Score2.11
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score6.92
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#132  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.mcobject.commaxdb.sap.comprometheus.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationprometheus.io/­docsqdrant.tech/­documentation
Developer4D, IncMcObjectSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Qdrant
Initial release19842001198420152021
Current releasev20, April 20238.2, 20217.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++GoRust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.yesno infosupport of XML interfaces availablenono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesno
Triggersyesyes infoby defining eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning / shardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationActive Replication Fabricâ„¢ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
Source-replica replicationyes infoby FederationCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoKey-based authentication

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