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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. dBASE vs. EsgynDB vs. mSQL vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	9.16
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.dbase.com

www.esgyn.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

4D, Inc

Asthon Tate

Esgyn

Hughes Technologies

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1984

1979

2015

1994

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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