DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. OpenSearch vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. OpenSearch vs. searchxml

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Name

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Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

Amazon Web Services

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1984

2019

2016

2021

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

2.5.0, January 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

All languages with LDAP bindings

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of specific operations

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles

LDAP bind authentication

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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