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DBMS > 4D vs. Geode vs. Kinetica vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Geode vs. Kinetica vs. SurrealDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 processesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgeode.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comsurrealdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.KineticaSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release1984200220122022
Current releasev20, April 20231.1, February 20177.1, August 2021v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++Rust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes, based on authentication and database rules

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