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DBMS > 4D vs. Realm vs. Solr vs. SurrealDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Realm vs. Solr vs. SurrealDB vs. TimesTen

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comrealm.iosolr.apache.orgsurrealdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comrealm.io/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer4D, IncRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Apache Software FoundationSurrealDB LtdOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19842014200620221998
Current releasev20, April 20239.6.0, April 2024v1.1.1, January 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaRust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
macOS
Windows
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 typingyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryJava pluginsPL/SQL
Triggersyesyes infoChange Listenersyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyesMulti-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 integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoIn-Memory realmyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyesyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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