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DBMS > 4D vs. Ehcache vs. EventStoreDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Ehcache vs. EventStoreDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TimesTen

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeEvent StoreTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.eventstore.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer4D, IncTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGEvent Store LimitedSiteWhereOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19842009201220101998
Current releasev20, April 20233.10.0, March 202221.2, February 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JCacheHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPL/SQL
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
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 groupsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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