DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. NCache vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. NCache vs. STSdb

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

druid.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Atos Convergence Creators

Alachisoft

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

2012

2016

2005

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

1703

5.3.3, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

partial

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL for querying

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
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

LDAP

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

cell division

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

LDAP bind authentication

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

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Specific characteristics

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