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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.ehcache.org

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

4D, Inc

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

1984

2009

2015

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JCache

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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