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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. NCache

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeNative XML DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbasex.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.basex.orgdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
Developer4D, IncAmazonBaseX GmbHFairCom CorporationAlachisoft
Initial release19842007200719792005
Current releasev20, April 202311.0, June 2024V3, October 20205.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono infoXQuery supports typesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyesnoyes infovia eventsyesyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationmultiple readers, single writerACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAmazon SimpleDBBaseXFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGENCache
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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