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

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Object-relational database and reports server

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

geode.apache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.valentina-db.net

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

geode.apache.org/docs

kairosdb.github.io

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

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

Paradigma Software

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2002

2013

1999

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1, February 2017

1.2.2, November 2018

5.7.5

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, each node contains all data

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

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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 password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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