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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  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 scaleDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comgeode.apache.orggeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.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.GeoSpockIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release198420022010
Current releasev20, April 20231.1, February 20172.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptErlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesnotemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language (OQL)ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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