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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Axibase vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Axibase vs. Rockset

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­neptuneaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financerockset.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.rockset.com
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonAxibase CorporationRockset
Initial release19842014201720132019
Current releasev20, April 202315585
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringdynamic typing
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.yesnononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnononoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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