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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GigaSpaces vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Coherence

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.gigaspaces.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

4D, Inc

Gigaspaces Technologies

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

Initial release

1984

2000

1991

2007

Current release

v20, April 2023

15.5, September 2020

5.7

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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