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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Hypertable vs. Newts vs. searchxml

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comopennms.github.io/­newtswww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Developer4D, IncHypertable Inc.OpenNMS Groupinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release1984200920142015
Current releasev20, April 20230.9.8.11, March 20161.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnonoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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