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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. JSqlDb vs. NCache vs. RDFox vs. Typesense

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

typesense.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

typesense.org/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Konrad von Backstrom

Alachisoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

1984

2018

2005

2017

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

0.8, December 2018

5.3.3, April 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
Java

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

replication via a shared file system

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Roles, resources, and access types

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

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