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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Dgraph vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS library

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
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	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

phoenix.apache.org

dgraph.io/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

4D, Inc

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

1984

2014

2016

1995

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

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

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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.

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JavaScript API

JDBC

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Planned for future releases

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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