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DBMS > 4D vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sequoiadb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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 systemA multi-model DBMS and application serverOracles in-memory data grid solutionNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Relational 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
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.intersystems.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
Developer4D, IncInterSystemsOracleSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release1984199720072013
Current releasev20, April 20232018.1.4, May 202014.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoJavaScript
Triggersyesyesyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDconfigurableDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationsimple password-based access control

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