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DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. CouchDB vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. CouchDB vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 networksA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score10.26
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorycouchdb.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/quasar.ai
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.quasar.ai/­master
Developer4D, IncAtos Convergence CreatorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCirconus LLC.quasardb
Initial release19842016200520172009
Current releasev20, April 202317033.3.3, December 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC and C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infointeger and binary
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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
LDAPRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages with LDAP bindingsC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptyes, in Luano
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infocell divisionSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Automatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsno infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsLDAP bind authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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