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DBMS > 4D vs. Dragonfly vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Dragonfly vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. XTDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.xtdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncDragonflyDB team and community contributorsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SAP infoformerly SybaseJuxt Ltd.
Initial release19842023201019922019
Current releasev20, April 20231.0, March 202317, July 20151.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangClojure
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesscheme-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuaView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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