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DBMS > 4D vs. eXtremeDB vs. Firebolt vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. eXtremeDB vs. Firebolt vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#100  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.mcobject.comwww.firebolt.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmdocs.firebolt.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
Developer4D, IncMcObjectFirebolt Analytics Inc.MicrosoftFacebook, Inc.
Initial release19842001202020152013
Current releasev20, April 20238.2, 2021V19.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 infosupport of XML interfaces availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonono
Triggersyesyes infoby defining eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning / shardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
depending on storage layeryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 dataACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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