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DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak KV

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed 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 Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceMicrosoft 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.)Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositoryboilerbay.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
Developer4D, IncAtos Convergence CreatorsBoiler Bay Inc.MicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release19842016200219922009
Current releasev20, April 202317034.01902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Erlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
LDAPAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages with LDAP bindingsJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineErlang
Triggersyesyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infocell divisionnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnonenoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsLDAP bind authenticationnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes, using Riak Security

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