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

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	2.14
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#392	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1984

2019

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

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

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