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DBMS > 4D vs. Geode vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Geode vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  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 CouchDBWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgeode.apache.orggeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
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 2014Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release1984200220101994
Current releasev20, April 20231.1, February 20172.0, September 201918.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptErlangC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedhostedAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.yesnononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesnotemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language (OQL)ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
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
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes 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.noyesnonoyes
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 databaseno

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