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DBMS > 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Datomic

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Datomic

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combitnine.net/­agensgraphphoenix.apache.orgwww.datomic.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combitnine.net/­documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.datomic.com
Developer4D, IncBitnine Global Inc.Apache Software FoundationCognitect
Initial release1984201620142012
Current releasev20, April 20232.1, December 20185.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJava, Clojure
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyesno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Cypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBCRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsyes infoTransaction Functions
TriggersyesnonoBy using transaction functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peers
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peers
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyno

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