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DBMS > 4D vs. OpenEdge vs. Qdrant vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. OpenEdge vs. Qdrant vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.progress.com/­openedgegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestqdrant.tech/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
Developer4D, IncProgress Software CorporationQdrantSAP, SybaseDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release19841984202119872000
Current releasev20, April 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 202016.03.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageRustC and C++C
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoclose to SQL 92noyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesJava and Transact-SQLno
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Shardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationCollection-level replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers and groupsKey-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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