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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Kylin vs. Apache Pinot vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Kylin vs. Apache Pinot vs. ToroDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchkylin.apache.orgpinot.apache.orggithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchkylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.pinot.apache.org
Developer4D, IncAmazonApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncApache Software Foundation and contributors8Kdata
Initial release19842012201520152016
Current releasev20, April 20233.1.0, July 20201.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and roles

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