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DBMS > 4D vs. atoti vs. Firebird vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. atoti vs. Firebird vs. Newts

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#245  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comatoti.iowww.firebirdsql.orgopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.atoti.iowww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
Developer4D, IncActiveViamFirebird FoundationOpenNMS Group
Initial release19842000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014
Current releasev20, April 20235.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)yesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPythonPSQLno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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