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DBMS > 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. MariaDB vs. Riak TS vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. MariaDB vs. Riak TS vs. Valentina Server

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemIn-memory caching systemMySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score91.04
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comcachelot.iomariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
www.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.commariadb.com/­kb/­en/­librarywww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
Developer4D, IncMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesParadigma Software
Initial release198420152009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 199520151999
Current releasev20, April 202311.3.2, February 20243.0.0, September 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT MariaDB offers MariaDB in a fully managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant.
Implementation languageC++C and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic columns are supportedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes, limitedyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Memcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3Erlangyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneseveral options for horizontal partitioning and ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infonot for in-memory storage engineyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infowith MEMORY storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionCachelot.ioMariaDBRiak TSValentina Server
Specific characteristicsMariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Competitive advantagesMariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Typical application scenariosWeb, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsMariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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