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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Ehcache vs. ITTIA vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.ehcache.org

www.ittia.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

4D, Inc

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

ITTIA L.L.C.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1984

2009

2007

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

8.7

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JCache

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

Database file passwords

yes, using Riak Security

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