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DBMS > 4D vs. Ehcache vs. KeyDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Ehcache vs. KeyDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP IQ

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
objectbox.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.keydb.devdocs.objectbox.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
Developer4D, IncTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.ObjectBox LimitedSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release19842009201920171994
Current releasev20, April 20233.10.0, March 202216.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JCacheProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoProprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoLuanoyes
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and serverSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnosimple password-based access control and ACLyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionEhcacheKeyDBObjectBoxSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ
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