DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Galaxybase

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Galaxybase

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Name	4D former name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparison	Amazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparison	Atos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison	Galaxybase  Xexclude from comparison
			This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
Description	Application development environment with integrated database management system	A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud	Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks	Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Search engine	Document store Key-value store	Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.47 Rank #110   Overall #54   Relational DBMS	Score 1.81 Rank #137   Overall #12   Search engines		Score 0.07 Rank #377   Overall #40   Graph DBMS
Website	www.4d.com	aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearch	atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository	galaxybase.com
Technical documentation	developer.4d.com	docs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearch
Developer	4D, Inc	Amazon	Atos Convergence Creators	Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司
Initial release	1984	2012	2016	2017
Current release	v20, April 2023		1703	Nov 20, November 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language			Java	C and Java
Server operating systems	OS X Windows	hosted	Linux	Linux
Data scheme	yes	yes	Schema and schema-less with LDAP views	Strong typed schema
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	optional	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		yes	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes all search fields are automatically indexed	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes close to SQL 92	no	no	no
APIs and other access methods	ODBC RESTful HTTP API by using 4D Mobile SOAP webservices	HTTP API	LDAP	Browser interface console (shell) Graph API (Gremlin) OpenCypher Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	4D proprietary IDE PHP		All languages with LDAP bindings	Go Java Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes	no	no	user defined procedures and functions
Triggers	yes	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	yes automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required	Sharding cell division	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication	yes managed transparently by AWS	yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no		no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no	yes Relationships in graphs
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	Atomic execution of specific operations	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		yes	yes
User concepts Access control	Users and groups	authentication via encrypted signatures	LDAP bind authentication	Role-based access control
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More resources
	4D former name: 4th Dimension	Amazon CloudSearch	Atos Standard Common Repository	Galaxybase
DB-Engines blog posts	MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking 2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger show all	Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market 3 August 2015, Matthias Gelbmann The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines 4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger show all
Recent citations in the news		Amazon CloudSearch – Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month | Amazon Web Services 12 April 2012, AWS Blog Searching CloudTrail Logs Easily with Amazon CloudSearch | AWS Startups Blog 21 October 2014, AWS Blog AWS, Microsoft and Google should retire these cloud services 2 June 2020, TechTarget CloudSearch Update – Price Reduction, Hebrew & Japanese Support, Partitioning, CloudTrail | Amazon Web Services 19 November 2014, AWS Blog Amazon CloudSearch – Even Better Searching for Less Than $100/Month | Amazon Web Services 24 March 2014, AWS Blog provided by Google News

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