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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. DataFS vs. GeoMesa

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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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

bitnine.net/agensgraph

newdatabase.com

www.geomesa.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

bitnine.net/documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Bitnine Global Inc.

Mobiland AG

CCRi and others

Initial release

1984

2016

2018

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1, December 2018

1.1.263, October 2022

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Proprietary Sharding system

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

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

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Windows-Profile

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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