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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. searchxml

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.00
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#137  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score2.96
Rank#103  Overall
#18  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.comaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Developer4D, IncAltibaseOracleinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release19841999201920112015
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 202323.3, December 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsnonoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)with Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)multiple readers, single writer
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.noyesyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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