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DBMS > 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. CouchDB vs. Riak TS vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. CouchDB vs. Riak TS vs. YottaDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemIn-memory caching systemA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comcachelot.iocouchdb.apache.orgyottadb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesYottaDB, LLC
Initial release19842015200520152001
Current releasev20, April 20233.3.3, December 20233.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangErlangC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnononono
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 indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes, limitedby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Memcached protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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