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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn embedded key-value store for Go.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfauna.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.fauna.comspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
Developer4D, IncFauna, Inc.SpotifyOracle
Initial release19842013201420142007
Current releasev20, April 202314.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoScalaJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
GoC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnononoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source 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 ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDnoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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