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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

Microsoft

Oracle

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

2010

2007

1998

Current release

v20, April 2023

V12

14.1, August 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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