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DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GeoSpock vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Access

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GeoSpock vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft Access

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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 networksSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorygeospock.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
Developer4D, IncAtos Convergence CreatorsGeoSpockGigaspaces TechnologiesMicrosoft
Initial release1984201620001992
Current releasev20, April 202317032.0, September 201915.5, September 20201902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptJava, C++, .NetC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadata
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
LDAPJDBCGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages with LDAP bindings.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesyesnoyes, event driven architectureyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infocell divisionAutomatic shardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsLDAP bind authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per tableRole-based access controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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