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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Drizzle vs. GBase

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#115	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.24
Rank	#164	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.gbase.cn

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2008

2004

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

with proprietary extensions

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

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