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DBMS > 4D vs. dBASE vs. STSdb vs. TigerGraph vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. dBASE vs. STSdb vs. TigerGraph vs. VoltDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Score1.38
Rank#156  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.tigergraph.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.tigergraph.comdocs.voltdb.com
Developer4D, IncAsthon TateSTS Soft SCVoltDB Inc.
Initial release19841979201120172010
Current releasev20, April 2023dBASE 2019, 20194.0.8, September 201511.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#C++Java, C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
WindowsLinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..NET Client APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
dBase proprietary IDEC#
Java
C++
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesJava
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesnoRole-based access controlUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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