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DBMS > 4D vs. H2GIS vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Solr vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2GIS vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Solr vs. TimescaleDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of H2A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbsolr.apache.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.timescale.com
Developer4D, IncCNRSPerconaApache Software FoundationTimescale
Initial release19842013201520062017
Current releasev20, April 20233.4.10-2.10, November 20179.6.0, April 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesnonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
proprietary protocol using JSONJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2JavaScriptJava pluginsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnooptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovia In-Memory Engineyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and rolesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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