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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

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

geode.apache.org/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

4D, Inc

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

OpenPie

Initial release

1984

2002

2005

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1, February 2017

2.1, January 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

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)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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