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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Native XML DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­simpledbatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorybasex.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.basex.org
Developer4D, IncAlibabaAmazonAtos Convergence CreatorsBaseX GmbH
Initial release19842016200720162007
Current releasev20, April 2023170310.7, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnooptionalno infoXQuery supports types
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 indexesyesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APILDAPJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages with LDAP bindingsActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes infovia events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infocell divisionnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationAtomic execution of specific operationsmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)LDAP bind authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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