DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

basex.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.basex.org

firebase.google.com/docs/database

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

BaseX GmbH

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Initial release

1984

2016

2007

2012

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

10.7, August 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

XQuery supports types

yes

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 query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

via events

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

multiple readers, single writer

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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