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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Blazegraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Blazegraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­simpledbatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositoryblazegraph.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwiki.blazegraph.com
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonAtos Convergence CreatorsBlazegraph
Initial release19842014200720162006
Current releasev20, April 202317032.1.5, March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonooptionalyes infoRDF literal types
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSPARQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APILDAPJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages with LDAP bindings.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infocell divisionSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes infoRelationships in Graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)LDAP bind authenticationSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

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