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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#19	Object oriented DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

origodb.com

postgis.net

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Robert Friberg et al

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

2008

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

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

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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