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DBMS > 4D vs. GeoSpock vs. H2GIS vs. SAP IQ vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GeoSpock vs. H2GIS vs. SAP IQ vs. TinkerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 systemSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSpatial extension of H2Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgeospock.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
Developer4D, IncGeoSpockCNRSSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release1984201319942009
Current releasev20, April 20232.0, September 201916.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infobased on H2yesno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2SAP/Sybase Replication Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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