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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Initial release

1984

1999

2012

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL-92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

LDAP

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

cell division

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentication via encrypted signatures

LDAP bind authentication

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