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DBMS > 4D vs. GeoMesa vs. Netezza vs. SQream DB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GeoMesa vs. Netezza vs. SQream DB vs. ToroDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzasqream.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
Developer4D, IncCCRi and othersIBMSQream Technologies8Kdata
Initial release19842014200020172016
Current releasev20, April 20234.0.5, February 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceLinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nodepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles

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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionGeoMesaNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMSQream DBToroDB
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