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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Geode vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SpaceTime

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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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

geode.apache.org

www.hawkular.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

geode.apache.org/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

4D, Inc

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

Community supported by Red Hat

Mireo

Initial release

1984

2002

2014

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

yes

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