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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  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 networksFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.GeoMesa 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
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorydb.apache.org/­derbywww.geomesa.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
Developer4D, IncAtos Convergence CreatorsApache Software FoundationCCRi and othersCirconus LLC.
Initial release19842016199720142017
Current releasev20, April 2023170310.17.1.0, November 20234.0.5, February 2024V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScalaC 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.yesyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
LDAPJDBCHTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages with LDAP bindingsJava.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 proceduresyesnoJava Stored Proceduresnoyes, in Lua
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infocell divisionnonedepending on storage layerAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationdepending 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 integrityyesnoyesnono
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 persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesdepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsLDAP bind authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno

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