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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Informix vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Informix vs. Sadas Engine

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­redshiftatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
www.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
Developer4D, IncAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Atos Convergence CreatorsIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.SADAS s.r.l.
Initial release19842012201619842006
Current releasev20, April 2023170314.10.FC5, November 20208.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaC, C++ and JavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
LDAPJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCAll languages with LDAP bindings.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Pythonnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infocell divisionShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardLDAP bind authenticationUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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