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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GridDB vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#115	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.93
Rank	#122	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.69
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

griddb.net

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.griddb.net

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

Developer

4D, Inc

Toshiba Corporation

Oracle

Initial release

1984

2013

2007

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.1, August 2022

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

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

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at container level

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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