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DBMS > 4D vs. atoti vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. atoti vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSNative XML DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#245  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comatoti.iobasex.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.atoti.iodocs.basex.orglearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
Developer4D, IncActiveViamBaseX GmbHMicrosoft
Initial release198420072015
Current releasev20, April 202310.7, August 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)nono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPythonyesno
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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 groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes infousing Azure authentication

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