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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Kylin vs. NCache vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

kylin.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Alachisoft

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1984

2015

2005

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

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
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.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

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

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

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

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

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

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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