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DBMS > 4D vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kinetica vs. LeanXcale vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kinetica vs. LeanXcale vs. Memcached

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.kinetica.comwww.leanxcale.comwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
Developer4D, IncIBMKineticaLeanXcaleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release19842017201220152003
Current releasev20, April 20232.07.1, August 20211.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, C++C
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infothrough Apache Derbyno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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