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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. H2GIS vs. InterSystems Caché

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of H2A multi-model DBMS and application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cache
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.intersystems.com
Developer4D, IncCNRSInterSystems
Initial release198420131997
Current releasev20, April 20232018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2yes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infobased on H2Access rights for users, groups and roles

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