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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.42
Rank	#107	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#282	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

livedoc.4d.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

4D, Inc

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1984

1999

Current release

v18 R5, January 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

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

ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

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

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

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Recent citations in the news

A Look at Valentina
18 April 2014, SitePoint

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