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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AgensGraph vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TimesTen vs. Transbase

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Bitnine Global Inc.

Oracle

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1984

2016

2007

1998

1987

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1, December 2018

14.1, August 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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