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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Geode vs. Greenplum vs. KairosDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Object-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgeode.apache.orggreenplum.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgkairosdb.github.iovalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
Developer4D, IncOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Pivotal Software Inc.Paradigma Software
Initial release19842002200520131999
Current releasev20, April 20231.1, February 20177.0.0, September 20231.2.2, November 20185.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
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.yesnoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language (OQL)yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesnoyes
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDno
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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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