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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Drizzle vs. LevelDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Drizzle vs. LevelDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgallegrograph.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.md
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFranz Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogle
Initial release19842014200420082011
Current releasev20, April 20238.0, December 20237.2.4, September 20121.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.yesnono infobulk load of XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnono
Triggersyesyesyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonewith FederationShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPno
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlaSQLAllegroGraphDrizzleLevelDB
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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