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DBMS > 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. HyperSQL vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. HyperSQL vs. Teradata Aster

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
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
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.combitnine.net/­agensgraphhsqldb.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.combitnine.net/­documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
Developer4D, IncBitnine Global Inc.Teradata
Initial release1984201620012005
Current releasev20, April 20232.1, December 20182.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
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.yesnonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Cypher Query Language
JDBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
Java
JavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesJava, SQLR packages
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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