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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Geode vs. GreptimeDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

geode.apache.org

greptime.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.greptime.com

help.sap.com/hana

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

4D, Inc

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Greptime Inc.

SAP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1984

2002

2022

2010

1999

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1, February 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Python

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights per client and object definable

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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