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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GBase vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

www.gbase.cn

hazelcast.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

Developer

4D, Inc

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hazelcast

Microsoft

Initial release

1984

2004

2008

2014

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Replicated Map

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Role-based access control

yes

using Azure authentication

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