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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Interbase vs. PieCloudDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.openpie.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

Embarcadero

OpenPie

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1984

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.1, January 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
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

export as XML data possible

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
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Interbase Change Views

yes

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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