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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. dBASE vs. GBase vs. HBase

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  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 accessdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.dbase.comwww.gbase.cnhbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasehbase.apache.org/­book.html
Developer4D, IncAlibabaAsthon TateGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release19842016197920042008
Current releasev20, April 2023dBASE 2019, 2019GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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 92nonoStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
dBase proprietary IDEC#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
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 rolesyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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