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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. dBASE vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  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.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.dbase.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
Developer4D, IncAlibabaAsthon TateSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release1984201619791992
Current releasev20, April 2023dBASE 2019, 201917, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languagenoyes
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.ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavadBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javano infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
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 DBMSACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlibaba Cloud MaxComputedBASESAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere
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