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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Databricks vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Databricks vs. RavenDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.databricks.comravendb.net
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.databricks.comravendb.net/­docs
Developer4D, IncAmazonDatabricksHibernating Rhinos
Initial release1984201220132010
Current releasev20, April 20235.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.yesyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nowith Databricks SQLSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions and aggregatesyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
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 signaturesAuthorization levels configured per client per database
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAmazon CloudSearchDatabricksRavenDB
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