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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. MySQL vs. NCache vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

www.mysql.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

4D, Inc

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alachisoft

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1984

1995

2005

2003

Current release

v20, April 2023

9.0.0, July 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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

Access rights for users and roles

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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

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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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