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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Interbase

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgaltibase.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseEmbarcadero
Initial release1984201419991984
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.yesnonono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92yes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnostored procedures and stored functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyesInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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