DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. eXtremeDB vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. eXtremeDB vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb

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Name

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

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.mcobject.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

McObject

Circonus LLC.

quasardb

Initial release

1984

2016

2001

2017

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

8.2, 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

integer and binary

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

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

LDAP bind authentication

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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