DBMS > 4D vs. EJDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EJDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. MySQL

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/google/leveldb

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

Softmotions

InterSystems

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

1984

2012

1997

2011

1995

Current release

v20, April 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

1.23, February 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

in-process shared library

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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