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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. CouchDB vs. DataFS vs. GigaSpaces vs. LeanXcale

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#197  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#286  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#130  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comcouchdb.apache.orgnewdatabase.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.html
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerMobiland AGGigaspaces TechnologiesLeanXcale
Initial release19842005201820002015
Current releasev20, April 20233.3.3, December 20231.1.263, October 202215.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.yesnonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadata
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesno, except callback-events from server when changes happenedyes, event driven architecture
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Proprietary Sharding systemSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 groupsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseWindows-ProfileRole-based access control

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