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DBMS > 4D vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. searchxml

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#105  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comwww.geomesa.orgcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Developer4D, IncCCRi and othersGoogleinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release1984201420172015
Current releasev20, April 20234.0.5, February 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoStrict serializable isolationmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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