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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. atoti vs. Newts vs. Sphinx

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#242  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comatoti.ioopennms.github.io/­newtssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.atoti.iogithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncActiveViamOpenNMS GroupSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release198420142001
Current releasev20, April 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP REST
Java API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPythonnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnono

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