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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blueflood vs. Ehcache vs. etcd vs. Hazelcast

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA distributed reliable key-value storeA widely adopted in-memory data grid
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comblueflood.iowww.ehcache.orgetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
hazelcast.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.ehcache.org/­documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
hazelcast.org/­imdg/­docs
Developer4D, IncRackspaceTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGHazelcast
Initial release1984201320092008
Current releasev20, April 20233.10.0, March 20223.4, August 20195.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTJCachegRPC
JSON over HTTP
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes, watching key changesyes infoEvents
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby using Terracotta ServerUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnononoRole-based access control

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