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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Heroic vs. NCache vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#278	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.postgresql.fastware.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

4D, Inc

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Spotify

Alachisoft

Percona

Initial release

1984

2014

2005

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

partitioning by range, list and by hash

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

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
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Access rights for users and roles

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