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DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed 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 networksGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorygeode.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentation
Developer4D, IncAtos Convergence CreatorsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Microsoft
Initial release19842016200220162005
Current releasev20, April 202317031.1, February 20173.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhosted
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes
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.yesyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query language (OQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
LDAPJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages with LDAP bindings.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsTransact SQLuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infocell divisionShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replicationyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsyes, on a single nodeACIDACID
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsLDAP bind authenticationAccess rights per client and object definableyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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