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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Blazegraph vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Blazegraph vs. Splice Machine

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
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 libraryAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgbigobject.ioblazegraph.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bigobject.iowiki.blazegraph.comsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBigObject, Inc.BlazegraphSplice Machine
Initial release19842014201520062014
Current releasev20, April 20232.1.5, March 20193.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSPARQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoLuayesyes infoJava
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynonenoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infoRelationships in Graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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 groupsnonoSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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