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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. GigaSpaces

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchblueflood.iowww.exasol.comwww.gigaspaces.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.html
Developer4D, IncAmazonRackspaceExasolGigaspaces Technologies
Initial release19842012201320002000
Current releasev20, April 202315.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeyesschema-free
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadata
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyesSQL-99 for query and DML statements
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIHTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes, event driven architecture
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoHadoop integrationyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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