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

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

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Name

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.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.geomesa.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

CCRi and others

Circonus LLC.

quasardb

Initial release

1984

2016

2014

2017

2009

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

4.0.5, February 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

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

Scala

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

text, numeric, histograms

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 (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

depending on storage layer

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

depending on storage layer

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

depending on storage layer

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

depending on storage layer

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

LDAP bind authentication

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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