DBMS > 4D vs. ArangoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Geode vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. ArangoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Geode vs. SpaceTime

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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

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.77
Rank	#87	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

arangodb.com

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

geode.apache.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.arangodb.com

geode.apache.org/docs

Social network pages

Developer

4D, Inc

ArangoDB Inc.

Atos Convergence Creators

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

Mireo

Initial release

1984

2012

2016

2002

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.11.5, November 2023

1703

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (OQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

LDAP

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

yes

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

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Specific characteristics

Graph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantages

Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenarios

Native multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing models

Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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