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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Geode vs. Graph Engine vs. Lovefield

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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

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

geode.apache.org

www.graphengine.io

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

geode.apache.org/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

4D, Inc

Atos Convergence Creators

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

Microsoft

Google

Initial release

1984

2016

2002

2010

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

1.1, February 2017

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

.NET

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

LDAP

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual 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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights per client and object definable

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