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DBMS > 4D vs. mSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. Sphinx vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. mSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. Sphinx vs. Warp 10

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#349  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlrethinkdb.comsphinxsearch.comwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comrethinkdb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docswww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
Developer4D, IncHughes TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sphinx Technologies Inc.SenX
Initial release19841994200920012015
Current releasev20, April 20234.4, October 20212.4.1, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoWarpScript
TriggersyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding inforange basedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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