DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. mSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. mSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

help.sap.com/hana

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

Hughes Technologies

SAP

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

1984

2012

1994

2010

2001

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.4, October 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes

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