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DBMS > 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. TigerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score1.83
Rank#141  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release19842014200120112017
Current releasev20, April 20233.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C#C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol.NET Client APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
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-storagenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnononoRole-based access control

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