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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, IncAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsPerconaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19842012201220152018
Current releasev20, April 202329.0.1, April 20243.4.10-2.10, November 201711.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
proprietary protocol using JSONOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJavaScriptyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsauthentication via encrypted signaturesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access control

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