DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#310	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

basex.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.basex.org

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Atos Convergence Creators

BaseX GmbH

Initial release

1984

2016

2012

2016

2007

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

10.7, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

XQuery supports types

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

cell division

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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