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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. Apache Drill vs. Graph Engine

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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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

bitnine.net/agensgraph

drill.apache.org

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

bitnine.net/documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

4D, Inc

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Initial release

1984

2016

2012

2010

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1, December 2018

1.20.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Depending on the underlying data source

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

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