DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Pinot vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Pinot vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

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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

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

pinot.apache.org

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

postgis.net

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.pinot.apache.org

postgis.net/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Atos Convergence Creators

quasardb

Initial release

1984

2015

2016

2005

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.0.0, September 2023

1703

3.4.2, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

LDAP

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
Python

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

cell division

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

LDAP bind authentication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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