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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2 vs. HBase vs. InterSystems Caché

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.h2database.com

hbase.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.intersystems.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Thomas Mueller

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

InterSystems

Initial release

1984

2005

2008

1997

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

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

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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