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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. Altibase

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.79
Rank	#108	Overall
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Score	0.45
Rank	#245	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#181	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

altibase.com

Technical documentation

livedoc.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/58764.htm

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Altibase

Initial release

1984

1999

Current release

v18 R5, January 2021

v7.1.0.5.3, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

since February 2018

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

ANSI SQL-92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java
Python

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

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