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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. Altibase vs. Apache Drill

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combitnine.net/­agensgraphaltibase.comdrill.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combitnine.net/­documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdrill.apache.org/­docs
Developer4D, IncBitnine Global Inc.AltibaseApache Software Foundation
Initial release1984201619992012
Current releasev20, April 20232.1, December 2018v7.3, 2023, August 20231.20.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesANSI SQL-92SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Cypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesDepending on the underlying data source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesDepending on the underlying data source
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data source

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