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DBMS > 4D vs. Microsoft Access vs. RavenDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Microsoft Access vs. RavenDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMicrosoft 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.)Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessravendb.netwww.sadasengine.comsiridb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessravendb.net/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.siridb.com
Developer4D, IncMicrosoftHibernating RhinosSADAS s.r.l.Cesbit
Initial release19841992201020062017
Current releasev20, April 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20195.4, July 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C#C++C
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infoNumeric data
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query language (RQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnono
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Authorization levels configured per client per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts

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