DBMS > 4D vs. FatDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. STSdb vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. FatDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. STSdb vs. Weaviate

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

4D, Inc

FatCloud

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1984

2012

2014

2011

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

.NET Client API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via applications

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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