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DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  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 networksTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataMicrosoft 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.)Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#324  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score105.40
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorymachbase.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.commachbase.com/­dbmsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
Developer4D, IncAtos Convergence CreatorsMachbaseMicrosoftMicrosoft
Initial release19842016201319922015
Current releasev20, April 20231703V8.0, August 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshosted
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
LDAPgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages with LDAP bindingsC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyesyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infocell divisionShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesselectable replication factornoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes 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.noyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsLDAP bind authenticationsimple password-based access controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousing Azure authentication

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