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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Galaxybase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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Name	4D former name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparison	Atos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison	Galaxybase  Xexclude from comparison	IBM Db2 warehouse formerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparison
		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	Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform	Cloud-based data warehousing service
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Document store Key-value store	Graph DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.47 Rank #110   Overall #54   Relational DBMS		Score 0.07 Rank #377   Overall #40   Graph DBMS	Score 1.37 Rank #160   Overall #74   Relational DBMS
Website	www.4d.com	atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository	galaxybase.com	www.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouse
Technical documentation	developer.4d.com
Developer	4D, Inc	Atos Convergence Creators	Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司	IBM
Initial release	1984	2016	2017	2014
Current release	v20, April 2023	1703	Nov 20, November 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	yes
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Implementation language		Java	C and Java
Server operating systems	OS X Windows	Linux	Linux	hosted
Data scheme	yes	Schema and schema-less with LDAP views	Strong typed schema	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	optional	yes	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	yes	no	no Import/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes close to SQL 92	no	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	ODBC RESTful HTTP API by using 4D Mobile SOAP webservices	LDAP	Browser interface console (shell) Graph API (Gremlin) OpenCypher Proprietary native API	.NET Client API JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	4D proprietary IDE PHP	All languages with LDAP bindings	Go Java Python	Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python R Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	user defined procedures and functions	PL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggers	yes	yes		yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding cell division	Sharding	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication	yes		yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no		no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes Relationships in graphs	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	Atomic execution of specific operations	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	yes	yes
User concepts Access control	Users and groups	LDAP bind authentication	Role-based access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	4D former name: 4th Dimension	Atos Standard Common Repository	Galaxybase	IBM Db2 warehouse formerly named IBM dashDB
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