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DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. Apache Kylin vs. Faircom DB vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Apache Kylin vs. Faircom DB vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.comkylin.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualskylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
Developer4D, IncAltibaseApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncFairCom CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release19841999201519792010
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 20233.1.0, July 2020V12, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaANSI C, C++Erlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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