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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. DataFS vs. Geode vs. SiteWhere

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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.

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

newdatabase.com

geode.apache.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

geode.apache.org/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Mobiland AG

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

SiteWhere

Initial release

1984

2018

2002

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

Windows-Profile

Access rights per client and object definable

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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