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DBMS > 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. Riak TS vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. Riak TS vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-memory caching system

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1984

2015

2015

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

no

no

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

no

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

no

yes, limited

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Memcached protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

no

Erlang

no

Triggers

yes

no

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

yes

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

no

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

no

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

no

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

no

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

no

no

no

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Recent citations in the news

NoSQL pioneer Basho stamps its mark on time stamp data with Riak TS
6 October 2015, The Register

Basho open-sources its Riak TS database for the Internet Of Things
5 May 2016, TechCrunch

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11 May 2016, ENGINEERING.com

Basho brings open source Riak TS database for IoT
7 May 2016, Open Source For You

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