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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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 LuceneIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
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
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsolr.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmldbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer4D, IncMicrosoftApache Software FoundationOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release19842015200619982020
Current releasev20, April 2023V19.6.0, April 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)0.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
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
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesno
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 indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
C++
Java
PL/SQL
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava pluginsPL/SQLno
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 serviceyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
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 configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infousing Azure authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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