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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sequoiadb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comdruid.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release1984201220152013
Current releasev20, April 202329.0.1, April 2024V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJavaScript
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes infousing Azure authenticationsimple password-based access control

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