DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Google BigQuery vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Google BigQuery vs. Solr

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Name

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Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

cloud.google.com/bigquery

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.datastax.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

DataStax

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1984

2016

2011

2010

2006

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

6.8, April 2020

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

optimistic locking

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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