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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. CouchDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. BaseX vs. CouchDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeNative XML DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storebasex.orgcouchdb.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­datastore
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.basex.orgdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablecloud.google.com/­datastore/­docs
Developer4D, IncAlibabaBaseX GmbHApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGoogle
Initial release19842016200720052008
Current releasev20, April 202310.7, August 20233.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaErlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infoXQuery supports typesnoyes, details here
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoSQL-like query language (GQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesView functions in JavaScriptusing Google App Engine
Triggersyesnoyes infovia eventsyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsmultiple readers, single writerno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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