DBMS > 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#64	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

cachelot.io

www.snowflake.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

2015

2014

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Memcached protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

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 (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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