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DBMS > 4D vs. Geode vs. GeoSpock vs. GigaSpaces vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Geode vs. GeoSpock vs. GigaSpaces vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comgeode.apache.orggeospock.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
Developer4D, IncOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GeoSpockGigaspaces TechnologiesIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release1984200220002010
Current releasev20, April 20231.1, February 20172.0, September 201915.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptJava, C++, .NetErlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesnonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyesnotemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language (OQL)ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users can be defined per tableRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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