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DBMS > 4D vs. Ehcache vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Ehcache vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOracles in-memory data grid solutionRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
Developer4D, IncTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OracleSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release19842009201020071992
Current releasev20, April 20233.10.0, March 202214.1, August 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JCacheRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno infoatomic operations within a document possibleconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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