DBMS > 4D vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

geospock.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

GeoSpock

Spotify

Percona

Initial release

1984

2014

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.0, September 2019

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public 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

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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 type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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