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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Geode vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. OrigoDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  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 processesHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgeode.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overvieworigodb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgeode.apache.org/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdborigodb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Community supported by Red HatRobert Friberg et al
Initial release19842002201420132009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current releasev20, April 20231.1, February 20172.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC#
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and StringsUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.yesnononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language (OQL)noSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTHTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights per client and object definablenosimple rights management via user accountsRole based authorization
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionGeodeHawkular MetricsInfluxDBOrigoDB
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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