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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. searchxml

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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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

Microsoft

Oracle

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1984

2016

2015

2011

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

24.1, May 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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.

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

LDAP bind authentication

yes

using Azure authentication

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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