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DBMS > 4D vs. Ehcache vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Ehcache vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
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
Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.ehcache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigquerygithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
Developer4D, IncTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGoogleChris DavisOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release19842009201020061994
Current releasev20, April 20233.10.0, March 202218.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Unix
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyno
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.yesnononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JCacheRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions infoin JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnonoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoby using Terracotta ServernoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolocking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
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 groupsnoAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)nono

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