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DBMS > 4D vs. GeoSpock vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GeoSpock vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.13
Rank#114  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score3.62
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score91.31
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#196  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgeospock.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
Developer4D, IncGeoSpockEmbarcaderoMicrosoftTencent
Initial release1984198419922013
Current releasev20, April 20232.0, September 2019InterBase 2020, December 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptCC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnonenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationInterbase Change ViewsnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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