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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BaseX vs. Cubrid vs. mSQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

basex.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.basex.org

cubrid.org/manuals

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

4D, Inc

BaseX GmbH

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Hughes Technologies

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

1984

2007

2008

1994

1987

Current release

v20, April 2023

10.7, August 2023

11.0, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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