DBMS > 4D vs. GeoSpock vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GeoSpock vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB

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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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

geospock.com

www.hawkular.org

postgis.net

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

postgis.net/documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

GeoSpock

Community supported by Red Hat

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2014

2005

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.0, September 2019

3.4.2, February 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate 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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users can be defined per table

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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