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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Newts

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Name	4D former name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparison	Atos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	Newts  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	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Document store Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.47 Rank #110   Overall #54   Relational DBMS		Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.07 Rank #375   Overall #41   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.4d.com	atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	opennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentation	developer.4d.com		docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	github.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
Developer	4D, Inc	Atos Convergence Creators	Microsoft	OpenNMS Group
Initial release	1984	2016	2016	2014
Current release	v20, April 2023	1703
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language		Java	C++	Java
Server operating systems	OS X Windows	Linux	hosted	Linux OS X 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	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
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	yes close to SQL 92	no	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	ODBC RESTful HTTP API by using 4D Mobile SOAP webservices	LDAP	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	HTTP REST Java API
Supported programming languages	4D proprietary IDE PHP	All languages with LDAP bindings	C# Java PHP	Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	Transact SQL	no
Triggers	yes	yes	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding cell division	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	Sharding based on Cassandra
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication	yes	yes	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra
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	Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	Atomic execution of specific operations	ACID	no
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		no
User concepts Access control	Users and groups	LDAP bind authentication	yes	no
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	4D former name: 4th Dimension	Atos Standard Common Repository	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	Newts
DB-Engines blog posts	MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking 2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger show all
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