DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. ClickHouse vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. ClickHouse vs. searchxml

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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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	16.20
Rank	#37	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

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

clickhouse.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

clickhouse.com/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Atos Convergence Creators

Clickhouse Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1984

1999

2016

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

LDAP

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

key based and custom

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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