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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. jBASE vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	4D former name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparison	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	jBASE  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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	A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Multivalue DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.47 Rank #110   Overall #54   Relational DBMS	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 1.49 Rank #156   Overall #3   Multivalue DBMS
Website	www.4d.com	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	developer.4d.com	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
Developer	4D, Inc	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	1984	2016	1991	1993
Current release	v20, April 2023		5.7
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Server operating systems	OS X Windows	hosted	AIX Linux Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	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	yes	yes	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes		yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes close to SQL 92	yes	Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC	yes
APIs and other access methods	ODBC RESTful HTTP API by using 4D Mobile SOAP webservices	JDBC ODBC	JDBC ODBC Proprietary protocol RESTful HTTP API SOAP-based API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	4D proprietary IDE PHP	C Java Perl Python R	.Net Basic Jabbascript Java	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	yes	yes	yes
Triggers	yes	yes	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Users and groups	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Access rights can be defined down to the item level	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	4D former name: 4th Dimension	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	jBASE	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
DB-Engines blog posts	MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking 2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger show all
Recent citations in the news		Two Critical Flaws Found in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL Databases 20 April 2023, The Hacker News Accidental ‘write’ Permissions In Alibaba PostgreSQL Let Attackers Access Sensitive Data 22 April 2023, GBHackers Two critical vulnerabilities spotted in Alibaba Cloud's PostgreSQL databases 21 April 2023, TEISS Alibaba Cloud to spur AI innovation with upcoming Singapore hackathon in March | KrASIA 21 February 2024, KrASIA How Data Analytics Capabilities of Alibaba Group Evolve Its Ecosystem to the Cloud 20 February 2021, DataDrivenInvestor provided by Google News		SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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