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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Access vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Access vs. Yanza

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessyanza.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
Developer4D, IncAmazonAtos Convergence CreatorsMicrosoftYanza
Initial release19842012201619922015
Current releasev20, April 202317031902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesschema-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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APILDAPADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages with LDAP bindingsC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyesyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infocell divisionnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)LDAP bind authenticationno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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