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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Sphinx vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Sphinx vs. TigerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Search engineGraph DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorysphinxsearch.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
Developer4D, IncAmazonAtos Convergence CreatorsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release19842007201620012017
Current releasev20, April 202317033.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnooptionalnoyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APILDAPProprietary protocolGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages with LDAP bindingsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infocell divisionSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)LDAP bind authenticationnoRole-based access control

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