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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. STSdb

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Name

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

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Score	2.13
Rank	#114	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#98	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#101	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#362	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

druid.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

2012

2010

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

30.0.0, June 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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