DBMS > 4D vs. Memcached vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Memcached vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Rank	#110	Overall
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Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.memcached.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2003

2015

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.6.27, May 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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