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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Databricks vs. Elasticsearch vs. ToroDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comwww.databricks.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.databricks.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
Developer4D, IncDatabricksElastic8Kdata
Initial release1984201320102016
Current releasev20, April 20238.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92with Databricks SQLSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregatesyes
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
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.nonoMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionDatabricksElasticsearchToroDB
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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