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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  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 accessHighly 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.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Native XML DBMSWide column store
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Score2.80
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#324  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.96
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score5.35
Rank#71  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorybasex.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.basex.org
Developer4D, IncAlibabaAtos Convergence CreatorsBaseX GmbHMicrosoft
Initial release19842016201620072012
Current releasev20, April 2023170310.7, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalno infoXQuery supports typesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APILDAPJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
All languages with LDAP bindingsActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infovia eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infocell divisionnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnoneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsAtomic execution of specific operationsmultiple readers, single writeroptimistic locking
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensLDAP bind authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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