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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. searchxml vs. YottaDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 serviceDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.24
Rank#313  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.comaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsyottadb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
Developer4D, IncAltibaseinformationpartners gmbhYottaDB, LLC
Initial release19841999201920152001
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++C
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedWindowsDocker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92nonoby using the Octo plugin
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 API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsnoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsmultiple readers, single writeroptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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