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DBMS > 4D vs. Memcached vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Memcached vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.memcached.orgnsdb.iowww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikinsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
Developer4D, IncDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOracle
Initial release1984200320172007
Current releasev20, April 20231.6.27, May 202414.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJava, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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 indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocolgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoUsing Apache Luceneyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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