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

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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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

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

www.firebirdsql.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Atos Convergence Creators

Firebird Foundation

Initial release

1984

1999

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

LDAP

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica 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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

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