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DBMS > 4D vs. H2GIS vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2GIS vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of H2Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
Developer4D, IncCNRSCommunity supported by Red HatIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release1984201320142010
Current releasev20, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesnono
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2noView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infobased on H2noAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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