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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NCache

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

altibase.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Altibase

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Initial release

1984

1999

2013

2014

2005

Current release

v20, April 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

JSON types

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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