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DBMS > 4D vs. Ehcache vs. FeatureBase vs. Hawkular Metrics

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Ehcache vs. FeatureBase vs. Hawkular Metrics

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.featurebase.comwww.hawkular.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.featurebase.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
Developer4D, IncTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release1984200920172014
Current releasev20, April 20233.10.0, March 20222022, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
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 indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL queriesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JCachegRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaJava
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes, using Linux fsyncyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnono

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