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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GigaSpaces vs. Realm vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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 DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.gigaspaces.com

realm.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

realm.io/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Gigaspaces Technologies

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Yanza

Initial release

1984

2000

2014

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

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

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Role-based access control

yes

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