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DBMS > 4D vs. Geode vs. Solr vs. SpaceTime vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Geode vs. Solr vs. SpaceTime vs. Teradata

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  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 processesA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgeode.apache.orgsolr.apache.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.teradata.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgeode.apache.org/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.teradata.com
Developer4D, IncOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Apache Software FoundationMireoTeradata
Initial release19842002200620201984
Current releasev20, April 20231.1, February 20179.6.0, April 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linuxhosted
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes
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.yesnoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language (OQL)Solr Parallel SQL InterfaceA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsJava pluginsnoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeoptimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights per client and object definableyesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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