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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Firebird vs. Realm vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

realm.io/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Firebird Foundation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1984

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

2006

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

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

Source-replica replication

none

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

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

In-Memory realm

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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