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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datomic vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datomic vs. SpatiaLite

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitySpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.datomic.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comphoenix.apache.orgdocs.datomic.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer4D, IncApache Software FoundationAtos Convergence CreatorsCognitectAlessandro Furieri
Initial release19842014201620122008
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201917031.0.6735, June 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, ClojureC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-less
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyes
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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCLDAPRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages with LDAP bindingsClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes infoTransaction Functionsno
TriggersyesnoyesBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infocell divisionnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyLDAP bind authenticationnono

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