DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Bangdb vs. BaseX

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Bangdb vs. BaseX

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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

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

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

bangdb.com

basex.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

docs.bangdb.com

docs.basex.org

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Atos Convergence Creators

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

BaseX GmbH

Initial release

1984

1999

2016

2012

2007

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

10.7, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

XQuery supports types

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL-92

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

LDAP

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

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

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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