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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GeoMesa vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.geomesa.org

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

Alibaba

CCRi and others

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

1984

2016

2014

2004

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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