DBMS > 4D vs. ClickHouse vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. ClickHouse vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. NCache

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

clickhouse.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Clickhouse Inc.

Embarcadero

Kyligence, Inc.

Alachisoft

Initial release

1984

2016

1984

2016

2005

Current release

v20, April 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Interbase Change Views

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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