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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. SpatiaLite vs. Trafodion vs. Transbase

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Spatial extension of SQLite

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

trafodion.apache.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Alessandro Furieri

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1984

2008

2014

1987

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

2.3.0, February 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes, via HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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