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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Ehcache vs. Newts vs. Valentina Server

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score5.23
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#329  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ehcache.orgopennms.github.io/­newtswww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikivalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
Developer4D, IncAmazonTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGOpenNMS GroupParadigma Software
Initial release19842012200920141999
Current releasev20, April 20233.10.0, March 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIJCacheHTTP REST
Java API
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaJava.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsauthentication via encrypted signaturesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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