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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Couchbase vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JSON-based document store derived from CouchDB with a Memcached-compatible interface

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store info

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol

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Score	2.75
Rank	#92	Overall
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	31.49
Rank	#23	Overall
	#3	Document stores

Score	0.56
Rank	#201	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.couchbase.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

doc.4d.com

docs.couchbase.com

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

4D, Inc

Couchbase, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2011

2013

Current release

v17.0, July 2018

Server: 6.0, October 2018; Mobile: 2.5, May 2019; Couchbase Autonomous Operator: 1.2, May 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

Open Source info

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

yes

XML support info

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Declarative query language (N1QL) that extends ANSI SQL to JSON. First commercial implementation of SQL++.

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API info

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
Clojure
ColdFusion
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Tcl

Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-master replication

Master-master replication info

including cross data center replication
Master-slave replication

selectable replication factor info

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency info

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency info

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Single-document ACID transactions

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts info

Access control

Users and groups

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Customer 360 for user profile, session store and data aggregation (Comcast, Equifax,...
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Key customers

Amadeus, AT&T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast, Disney,...
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Market metrics

Named a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019 Over 10M downloads...
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Licensing and pricing models

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