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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. EXASOL vs. GeoSpock vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. EXASOL vs. GeoSpock vs. RocksDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.92
Rank#119  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score75.58
Rank#16  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score3.06
Rank#82  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.exasol.comgeospock.comrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.exasol.com/­resourcesgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
Developer4D, IncAmazonExasolGeoSpockFacebook, Inc.
Initial release1984201220002013
Current releasev20, April 20232.0, September 20199.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyestemporal, categoricalno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBCC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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