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DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Geode vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Geode vs. PostGIS

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Key-value store
Key-value storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­neptuneatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorygeode.apache.orgpostgis.net
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesgeode.apache.org/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
Developer4D, IncAmazonAtos Convergence CreatorsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.
Initial release19842017201620022005
Current releasev20, April 202317031.1, February 20173.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also required
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
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.yesnoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like query language (OQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
LDAPJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages with LDAP bindings.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infocell divisionShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.yesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)LDAP bind authenticationAccess rights per client and object definableyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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