DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Elasticsearch vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Elasticsearch vs. Snowflake

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

Elastic

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1984

2016

2010

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

8.6, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate 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

ACID

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

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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