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DBMS > 4D vs. Memcached vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Memcached vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developer4D, IncDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalAlex KashirinDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release1984200320202018
Current releasev20, April 20231.6.29, June 20240.5, April 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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 indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolRole-based access control

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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionMemcachedSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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