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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GeoSpock vs. GigaSpaces vs. NSDb

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

geospock.com

www.gigaspaces.com

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

4D, Inc

GeoSpock

Gigaspaces Technologies

Initial release

1984

2000

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.0, September 2019

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java, C++, .Net

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Role-based access control

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