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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Impala vs. Firebird vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

impala.apache.org

www.firebirdsql.org

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

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

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

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Firebird Foundation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

1984

2013

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1991

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

5.0.1, August 2024

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

PSQL

yes

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

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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