DBMS > 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cachelot.io vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 vs. Riak TS

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-memory caching system

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#64	Key-value stores

Score	127.49
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

cachelot.io

geospock.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

4D, Inc

GeoSpock

IBM

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1984

2015

1983

host version

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.0, September 2019

12.1, October 2016

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Javascript

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

temporal, categorical

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Memcached protocol

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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