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DBMS > 4D vs. Badger vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NCache vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Badger vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. NCache vs. TiDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Document store
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#328  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score4.09
Rank#72  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.alachisoft.com/­ncachepingcap.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
Developer4D, IncDGraph LabsIBMAlachisoftPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release19842017201720052016
Current releasev20, April 20232.05.3.3, April 20248.2.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaGo, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
GoC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersyesnonoyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyeshorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneActive-active shard replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionBadgerIBM Db2 Event StoreNCacheTiDB
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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