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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Access vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Access vs. NSDb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMicrosoft 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.)Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.80
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score20.63
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score2.08
Rank#132  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score107.93
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.datomic.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessnsdb.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.datomic.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessnsdb.io/­Architecture
Developer4D, IncAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)CognitectMicrosoft
Initial release19842012201219922017
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.6735, June 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJava, ClojureC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Pythonyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
TriggersyesnoBy using transaction functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes infobut no files for transaction loggingUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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