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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Kylin vs. GeoMesa vs. InfinityDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

CCRi and others

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

1984

2015

2014

2002

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

5.0.1, July 2024

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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