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DBMS > 4D vs. eXtremeDB vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. eXtremeDB vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#214  Overall
#99  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.mcobject.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
Developer4D, IncMcObjectCirconus LLC.MicrosoftSimer Plaha
Initial release19842001201720152018
Current releasev20, April 20238.2, 2021V0.10.20, January 2018V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++Scala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
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.yesno infosupport of XML interfaces availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, in Luanono
Triggersyesyes infoby defining eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning / shardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyesyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoyes infousing Azure authenticationno
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensioneXtremeDBIRONdbMicrosoft Azure AI SearchSwayDB
Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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