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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. Splunk

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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

Well established RDBMS

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.actian.com/ingres

kairosdb.github.io

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

Actian Corporation

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1984

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

2003

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

11.2, May 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Ingres Replicator

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual 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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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