DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

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

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

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

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Atos Convergence Creators

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1984

2016

2020

1987

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages with LDAP bindings

C++

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

LDAP bind authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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