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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  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 libraryHighly 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.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositoryblazegraph.comhsqldb.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwiki.blazegraph.comhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAtos Convergence CreatorsBlazegraph
Initial release19842014201620062001
Current releasev20, April 202317032.1.5, March 20192.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnooptionalyes infoRDF literal typesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSPARQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APILDAPJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptAll languages with LDAP bindings.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesJava, SQL
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infocell divisionShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACID
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoLDAP bind authenticationSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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