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DBMS > 4D vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Developer4D, IncKineticaMicrosoftTransaction Software GmbHVelocityDB Inc
Initial release19842012201519872011
Current releasev20, April 20237.1, August 2021V1Transbase 8.3, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++C and C++C#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyesACID
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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