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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Databricks vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.databricks.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquasar.ai
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.databricks.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.quasar.ai/­master
Developer4D, IncDatabricksIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014quasardb
Initial release1984201320102009
Current releasev20, April 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageErlangC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infointeger and binary
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92with Databricks SQLnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregatesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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