DBMS > 4D vs. Cassandra vs. InfinityDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cassandra vs. InfinityDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.marklogic.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Boiler Bay Inc.

MarkLogic Corp.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1984

2008

2002

2001

2006

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

4.0

11.0, December 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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.

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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