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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Altibase vs. Apache Pinot vs. Axibase vs. GigaSpaces

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.00
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#244  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#288  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaltibase.compinot.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.gigaspaces.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.html
Developer4D, IncAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationGigaspaces Technologies
Initial release19841999201520132000
Current releasev20, April 2023v7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.0, September 20231558515.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes
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.yesnonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadata
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-99 for query and DML statements
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Java
Go
Java
Python
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesstored procedures and stored functionsyesyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes, event driven architecture
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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