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DBMS > 4D vs. Hazelcast vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Hazelcast vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TypeDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA widely adopted in-memory data griddata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comhazelcast.comhive.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchtypedb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchtypedb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncHazelcastApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMicrosoftVaticle
Initial release19842008201220152016
Current releasev20, April 20235.3.6, November 20233.1.3, April 2022V12.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersyesyes infoEventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoReplicated Mapselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousing Azure authenticationyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionHazelcastHiveMicrosoft Azure AI SearchTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
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