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DBMS > 4D vs. Faircom DB vs. Memcached vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Faircom DB vs. Memcached vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#350  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.memcached.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
Developer4D, IncFairCom CorporationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalTranswarp
Initial release1984197920032014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releasev20, April 2023V12, November 20201.6.25, March 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++CC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresnoyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentnoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memorynoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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