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DBMS > 4D vs. Blueflood vs. Citus vs. Geode vs. KeyDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blueflood vs. Citus vs. Geode vs. KeyDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comblueflood.iowww.citusdata.comgeode.apache.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.citusdata.comgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.keydb.dev
Developer4D, IncRackspaceOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.
Initial release19842013201020022019
Current releasev20, April 20238.1, December 20181.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoBSD-3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes
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.yesnoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search module
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protoco
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsLua
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes, on a single nodeOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definablesimple password-based access control and ACL

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