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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PieCloudDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.gigaspaces.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.openpie.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

4D, Inc

Gigaspaces Technologies

Microsoft

OpenPie

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

2000

1989

2011

Current release

v20, April 2023

15.5, September 2020

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.1, January 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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