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DBMS > 4D vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GeoMesa vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GeoMesa vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.geomesa.orgterminusdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer4D, IncCloudflareCCRi and othersDataChemist Ltd.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19842018201420181998
Current releasev20, April 20234.0.5, February 202411.0.0, January 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesPL/SQL
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesdepending on storage layerJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonodepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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