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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FatDB vs. Ingres vs. LMDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. FatDB vs. Ingres vs. LMDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Well established RDBMSA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.lmdb.tech/­doc
Developer4D, IncAlibabaFatCloudActian CorporationSymas
Initial release1984201620121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2011
Current releasev20, April 202311.2, May 20220.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC#CC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedWindowsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
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.yesnono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nono infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
C#.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infovia applicationsyesno
Triggersyesnoyes infovia applicationsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorIngres Replicatornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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