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DBMS > 4D vs. AntDB vs. EXASOL vs. GeoMesa vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AntDB vs. EXASOL vs. GeoMesa vs. SwayDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.exasol.comwww.geomesa.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
Developer4D, IncAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedExasolCCRi and othersSimer Plaha
Initial release1984200020142018
Current releasev20, April 20235.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaScala
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL2016 compliantyesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Lua
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingdepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
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.noyesyesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno

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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAntDBEXASOLGeoMesaSwayDB
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