DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. NCache vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. NCache vs. Riak TS

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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

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

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

Cloudflare

Alachisoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1984

2016

2018

2005

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

5.3.3, April 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

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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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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