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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Well established RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorybasex.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.basex.orgdocs.actian.com/­ingres
Developer4D, IncAltibaseAtos Convergence CreatorsBaseX GmbHActian Corporation
Initial release19841999201620071974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 2023170310.7, August 202311.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalno infoXQuery supports typesyes
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.yesnoyesno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
LDAPJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
All languages with LDAP bindingsActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes infovia eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infocell divisionnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyesnoneIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardLDAP bind authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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