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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Geode vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PostGIS

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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 multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

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	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

geode.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

postgis.net

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

postgis.net/documentation

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.

Oracle

Initial release

1984

2016

2002

2011

2005

Current release

v20, April 2023

1703

1.1, February 2017

23.3, December 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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 DML and DDL statements

yes

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#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

yes, on a single node

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users and roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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