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DBMS > 4D vs. ArcadeDB vs. FatDB vs. H2GIS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. ArcadeDB vs. FatDB vs. H2GIS

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Spatial extension of H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#366  Overall
#50  Document stores
#38  Graph DBMS
#53  Key-value stores
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comarcadedb.comwww.h2gis.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.arcadedb.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
Developer4D, IncArcade DataFatCloudCNRS
Initial release1984202120122013
Current releasev20, April 2023September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language, no joinsno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC#Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsyes infobased on H2
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationship in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes infobased on H2

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