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DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. CouchDB vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. CouchDB vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS

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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 comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
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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.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational 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
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.57
Rank#248  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorycouchdb.apache.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssql.js.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
Developer4D, IncAtos Convergence CreatorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerinformationpartners gmbhAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release19842016200520152012
Current releasev20, April 202317033.3.3, December 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windowsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalnoyesyes
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.yesyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
LDAPRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JavaScript 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
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infocell divisionSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsno infoatomic operations within a single document possiblemultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsLDAP bind authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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