Difference between 4D and ActivePivot

1. 4th Dimension (4D) :
It is a relational database management system and IDE developed by Laurent Ribardière. 4D can run as a server so that multiple clients can manage a single database. 4D was created in 1984 and had a slightly delayed public release for Macintosh in 1987. It is an application development environment with integrated database management system.

2. ActivePivot :
It is an in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data. It uses a columnar storage architecture with dictionary compression and binary representation of Java objects. It is one of the core products of the French company ActiveViam – once known as Quartet FS, which was founded in 2005.

Difference between 4D and ActivePivot :

S.NO.	4D	ACTIVEPIVOT
1.	Developed By 4D, Inc on 1984.	Developed By ActiveViam.
2.	It is an application development environment with integrated database management system.	It is an in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.
3.	4D is written in C and C++ languages.	ActivePivot is written in Java language.
4.	The primary database model for 4D is Relational DBMS.	The primary database model for ActivePivot is Object oriented DBMS.
5.	It does not support In-memory capabilities.	It supports In-memory capabilities.
6.	In 4D, there is no partitioning method.	In ActivePivot, partitioning can be done by Sharding and horizontal partitioning.
7.	It support for concurrent manipulation of data.	It support for concurrent manipulation of data with multi-version concurrency control (MVCC).
8.	It supports the Server-side scripts.	It also supports the Server-side scripts with Post-processors in Java.
9.	It supports SQL query language.	It also supports SQL query language with Multidimensional Expressions (MDX).