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DBMS > 4D vs. GeoSpock vs. HyperSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GeoSpock vs. HyperSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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 scaleMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Object-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score2.37
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#313  Overall
#140  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgeospock.comhsqldb.orgrocksdb.orgwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikivalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
Developer4D, IncGeoSpockFacebook, Inc.Paradigma Software
Initial release1984200120131999
Current releasev20, April 20232.0, September 20192.7.2, June 20239.4.0, June 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBCHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava, SQLnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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