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DBMS > 4D vs. EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.exasol.comwww.firebolt.iosphinxsearch.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.firebolt.iosphinxsearch.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncExasolFirebolt Analytics Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release19842000202020012018
Current releasev20, April 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono

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