DBMS > 4D vs. DataFS vs. GeoMesa vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. DataFS vs. GeoMesa vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Mobiland AG

CCRi and others

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1984

2018

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

depending on storage layer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

depending on storage layer

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Windows-Profile

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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