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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. Infobright

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

bitnine.net/agensgraph

alasql.org

blueflood.io

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Bitnine Global Inc.

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rackspace

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

1984

2016

2014

2013

2005

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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