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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. openGemini vs. searchxml vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.opengemini.org/guide

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

Huawei and openGemini community

informationpartners gmbh

Mireo

Initial release

1984

2022

2015

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1, July 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Administrators and common users accounts

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

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