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DBMS > 4D vs. GridGain vs. H2GIS vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GridGain vs. H2GIS vs. Pinecone

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteSpatial extension of H2A managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.gridgain.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
Developer4D, IncGridGain Systems, Inc.CNRSPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release1984200720132019
Current releasev20, April 2023GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaPython
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infobased on H2
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes (replicated cache)yes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infobased on H2

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