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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. searchxml

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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.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	2.74
Rank	#119	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#318	Overall
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	11.51
Rank	#45	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#389	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#28	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

livedoc.4d.com

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Google

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1984

2017

2015

Current release

v18 R5, January 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

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

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

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

yes

multiple readers, single writer

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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