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DBMS > 4D vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SiriDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA multi-model DBMS and application serverOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachesiridb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.comdocs.siridb.com
Developer4D, IncCommunity supported by Red HatIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystemsCesbit
Initial release19842014201019972017
Current releasev20, April 20232018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infoNumeric data
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple rights management via user accounts

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