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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score41.47
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#112  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.teradata.comterminusdb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.teradata.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
Developer4D, IncTeradataDataChemist Ltd.Rocket Software
Initial release1984198420181985
Current releasev20, April 2023Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageProlog, RustC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hosted
Linux
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptional
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelyesyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoHashingGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling StreamsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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