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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. atoti vs. Geode vs. GridGain vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.atoti.io

geode.apache.org/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

ActiveViam

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

GridGain Systems, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

2002

2007

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1, February 2017

GridGain 8.5.1

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language (OQL)

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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