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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. CouchDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. CouchDB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographcouchdb.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stable
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerTeradata
Initial release19842014201820052005
Current releasev20, April 20232.3, January 20213.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.yesnononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptC++
Java
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions and aggregatesView functions in JavaScriptR packages
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic shardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infonot needed in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
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.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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