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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Fauna vs. GeoSpock vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#143	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#66	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

fauna.com

geospock.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.fauna.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

4D, Inc

Fauna, Inc.

GeoSpock

Oracle

Initial release

1984

2014

2007

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.0, September 2019

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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