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DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. IRONdb

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHighly 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 durabilityGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.datomic.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.datomic.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
Developer4D, IncAtos Convergence CreatorsCognitectCCRi and othersCirconus LLC.
Initial release19842016201220142017
Current releasev20, April 202317031.0.6735, June 20234.0.5, February 2024V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
LDAPRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages with LDAP bindingsClojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes, in Lua
TriggersyesyesBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infocell divisionnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layerAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentdepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsLDAP bind authenticationnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno

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