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DBMS > 4D vs. Altibase vs. Axibase vs. Realm vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Axibase vs. Realm vs. Solr

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financerealm.iosolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsrealm.io/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.html
Developer4D, IncAltibaseAxibase CorporationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Apache Software Foundation
Initial release19841999201320142006
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 2023155859.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languagenoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryJava plugins
Triggersyesyesyesyes infoChange Listenersyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes

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