DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Aurora vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Aurora vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1984

2015

2010

2013

2003

Current release

v20, April 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

yes

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

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