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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

origodb.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Franz Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1984

2014

2004

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

v20, April 2023

8.0, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

bulk load of XML files possible

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

with Federation

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Write ahead log

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role based authorization

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