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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. dBASE vs. searchxml vs. Speedb vs. TimesTen

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.dbase.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.speedb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer4D, IncAsthon Tateinformationpartners gmbhSpeedbOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19841979201520201998
Current releasev20, April 2023dBASE 2019, 20191.011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
WindowsLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
dBase proprietary IDEC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infoon the application servernoPL/SQL
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyesMulti-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 Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSmultiple readers, single writeryesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensiondBASEsearchxmlSpeedbTimesTen
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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