DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Cubrid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Cubrid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Multivalue 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	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

cubrid.org/manuals

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

1984

2016

2008

2012

1991

Current release

v20, April 2023

11.0, January 2021

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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