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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Graph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorydgraph.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldgraph.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
Developer4D, IncAmazonAtos Convergence CreatorsDgraph Labs, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release19842015201620162010
Current releasev20, April 20231703
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoErlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesno
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.yesyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
LDAPGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
All languages with LDAP bindingsC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infocell divisionyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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 authenticationno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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