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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiriDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
RDF storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comdrill.apache.orgjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsiridb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdrill.apache.org/­docsjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.siridb.com
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Cesbit
Initial release19842012200020102017
Current releasev20, April 20231.20.3, January 20234.9.0, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Fuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C++JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyes infovia event handleryesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoTDB Transactionsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess control via Jena SecurityAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accounts

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