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DBMS > 4D vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Solr vs. TerarkDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Solr vs. TerarkDB vs. TimesTen

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsolr.apache.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer4D, IncMicrosoftApache Software FoundationByteDance, originally TerarkOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19842015200620161998
Current releasev20, April 2023V19.6.0, April 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingnoyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSolr Parallel SQL Interfacenoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
C++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava pluginsnoPL/SQL
Triggersyesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infousing Azure authenticationyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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