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DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Axibase vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Axibase vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositoryaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
Developer4D, IncAtos Convergence CreatorsAxibase CorporationFirebird Foundation
Initial release1984201620132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014
Current releasev20, April 20231703155855.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesno
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
LDAPJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages with LDAP bindingsGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesPSQLView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infocell divisionShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsLDAP bind authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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