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

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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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.67
Rank	#150	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

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

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Atos Convergence Creators

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1984

1999

2016

2015

2008

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1703

1.0

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

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++

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

LDAP

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

on the application server

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

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

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

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

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

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

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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