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DBMS > 4D vs. BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn embedded key-value store for Go.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#127  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
Developer4D, IncDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSpotifyOracle
Initial release19842013202320142007
Current releasev20, April 20231.0, March 202314.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
GoC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoLuanono
Triggersyesnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationyesyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infooptionally
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 groupsnoPassword-based authenticationauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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