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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Axibase vs. Ehcache vs. EJDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.md
Developer4D, IncAmazonAxibase CorporationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSoftmotions
Initial release19842012201320092012
Current releasev20, April 2023155853.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPLv2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_id
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JCachein-process shared library
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnono
Triggersyesyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationyes infoby using Terracotta Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono

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