DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Access vs. NCache vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Access vs. NCache vs. Yanza

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

yanza.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Yanza

Initial release

1984

2016

1992

2005

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Notifications

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

LDAP bind authentication

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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