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DBMS > 4D vs. H2GIS vs. Solr vs. SQL.JS vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2GIS vs. Solr vs. SQL.JS vs. SQream DB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of H2A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LucenePort of SQLite to JavaScripta GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.h2gis.orgsolr.apache.orgsql.js.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homesolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
Developer4D, IncCNRSApache Software FoundationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSQream Technologies
Initial release19842013200620122017
Current releasev20, April 20239.6.0, April 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL 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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2Java pluginsnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2yesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infobased on H2yesno

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