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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Db2 vs. jBASE vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. IBM Db2 vs. jBASE vs. VoltDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 accessCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.voltdb.com
Developer4D, IncAlibabaIBMRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)VoltDB Inc.
Initial release198420161983 infohost version19912010
Current releasev20, April 202312.1, October 20165.711.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyesJava
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
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 tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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