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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. searchxml

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Name	4D former name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparison	Percona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	searchxml  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Application development environment with integrated database management system	Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Native XML DBMS Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.47 Rank #110   Overall #54   Relational DBMS	Score 2.10 Rank #119   Overall #57   Relational DBMS		Score 0.03 Rank #390   Overall #7   Native XML DBMS #24   Search engines
Website	www.4d.com	www.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-server	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentation	developer.4d.com	www.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATEST		www.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Developer	4D, Inc	Percona	Sybase, SAP	informationpartners gmbh
Initial release	1984	2008	1993	2015
Current release	v20, April 2023	8.0.36-28, 2024		1.0
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source GPL version 2	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C and C++		C++
Server operating systems	OS X Windows	Linux	Linux Windows	Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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	yes	no	yes
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes close to SQL 92	yes	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	ODBC RESTful HTTP API by using 4D Mobile SOAP webservices	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	RESTful HTTP API WebDAV XQuery XSLT
Supported programming languages	4D proprietary IDE PHP	Ada C C# C++ D Eiffel Erlang Haskell Java Objective-C OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby Scheme Tcl	Delphi Perl PHP	C++ most other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	yes	yes	yes on the application server
Triggers	yes	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none		none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication XtraDB Cluster	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	yes sychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	ACID	multiple readers, single writer
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	Users and groups	Users with fine-grained authorization concept no user groups or roles	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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	4D former name: 4th Dimension	Percona Server for MySQL	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	searchxml
DB-Engines blog posts	MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking 2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger show all
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