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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name	4D former name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparison	Atos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison	Oracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp Hippo  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		Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Document store Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.47 Rank #110   Overall #54   Relational DBMS		Score 1.14 Rank #178   Overall #80   Relational DBMS	Score 0.05 Rank #386   Overall #16   Vector DBMS
Website	www.4d.com	atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository	www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentation	developer.4d.com		www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
Developer	4D, Inc	Atos Convergence Creators	Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release	1984	2016	1984	2023
Current release	v20, April 2023	1703	7.4.1.1, 2021	1.0, May 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java		C++
Server operating systems	OS X Windows	Linux	HP Open VMS	Linux macOS
Data scheme	yes	Schema and schema-less with LDAP views	Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	optional	yes	Vector, Numeric and String
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		RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	4D proprietary IDE PHP	All languages with LDAP bindings		C++ Java Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no		no
Triggers	yes	yes		no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding cell division		Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication	yes
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	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	Atomic execution of specific operations	yes, on a single node	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	yes
User concepts Access control	Users and groups	LDAP bind authentication		Role based access control and fine grained access rights
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	4D former name: 4th Dimension	Atos Standard Common Repository	Oracle Rdb	Transwarp Hippo
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