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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Infobright vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

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

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

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

Developer

4D, Inc

Esgyn

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1984

2015

2010

2005

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Java Stored Procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes, using Riak Security

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