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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. CouchDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. CouchDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SiriDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.44
Rank#259  Overall
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbcouchdb.apache.orgkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisesiridb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.siridb.com
Developer4D, IncAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerKyligence, Inc.Cesbit
Initial release1984200520162017
Current releasev20, April 20233.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infoNumeric data
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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accounts
More information provided by the system vendor
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