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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. dBASE vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

drill.apache.org/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Asthon Tate

Initial release

1984

2012

1979

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++

dBase proprietary IDE

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users and roles

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