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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpatial extension of H2A managed, cloud-native vector databaseHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.pinecone.iowww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.ultipa.com/­document
Developer4D, IncCNRSPinecone Systems, IncUltipa
Initial release1984201320192019
Current releasev20, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaPythonC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsyes infobased on H2

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