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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. searchxml vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, Incinformationpartners gmbhDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release1984201920152018
Current releasev20, April 20231.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedWindowsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 groupsAccess rights for users and rolesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesRole-based access control

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