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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

siridb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.siridb.com

Developer

4D, Inc

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Cesbit

Initial release

1984

2010

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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