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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Cassandra vs. Geode

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

geode.apache.org/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Initial release

1984

2014

2008

2002

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.0-rc1, July 2024

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

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

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights per client and object definable

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