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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. dBASE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.dbase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
Developer4D, IncAlibabaAsthon TateGoogleIBM
Initial release19842016197920152017
Current releasev20, April 2023dBASE 2019, 20192.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languagenonoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavadBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyes
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSAtomic single-row operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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