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

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

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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

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#136	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

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

basex.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

docs.basex.org

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Atos Convergence Creators

BaseX GmbH

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

1984

1999

2016

2007

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

10.7, August 2023

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

XQuery supports types

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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