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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AntDB vs. Interbase vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

4D, Inc

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Embarcadero

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

1984

1991

Current release

v20, April 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL2016 compliant

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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