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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SiriDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
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, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlsiridb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.siridb.com
Developer4D, IncCommunity supported by Red HatIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OracleCesbit
Initial release19842014201020112017
Current releasev20, April 202323.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open 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 languageJavaErlangJavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnooptionalyes 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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
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.nononoyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accounts

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