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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Citus vs. Geode vs. NCache vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.citusdata.com

geode.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.citusdata.com

geode.apache.org/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

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

Alachisoft

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

2010

2002

2005

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

8.1, December 2018

1.1, February 2017

5.3.3, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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