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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Vitess

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comdrill.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorybasex.orgvitess.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.basex.orgvitess.io/­docs
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationAtos Convergence CreatorsBaseX GmbHThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release19842012201620072013
Current releasev20, April 20231.20.3, January 2023170310.7, August 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalno infoXQuery supports typesyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
LDAPJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++All languages with LDAP bindingsActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyesyes infovia eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infocell divisionnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of specific operationsmultiple readers, single writerACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsDepending on the underlying data sourceLDAP bind authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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