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

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

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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
Key-value store

Key-value store

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

geode.apache.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

geode.apache.org/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Atos Convergence Creators

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

Initial release

1984

2012

2016

2002

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights per client and object definable

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