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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. OpenQM vs. Sphinx vs. VelocityDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#358	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

sphinxsearch.com

velocitydb.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

4D, Inc

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

SenX

Initial release

1984

1993

2001

2011

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.4-12

3.5.1, February 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol

.Net

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Based on Windows Authentication

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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