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DBMS > 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. Fauna vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. Fauna vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Riak TS

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemIn-memory caching systemFauna 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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comcachelot.iofauna.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.fauna.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
Developer4D, IncFauna, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release19842015201420102015
Current releasev20, April 20233.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++ScalaErlangErlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
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 indexesyesnoyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Memcached protocolRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersyesnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
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 replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic 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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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