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

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

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score1.81
Rank#143  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#141  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4us.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberowww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqltechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSTS Soft SCTmaxSoft
Initial release19842014201120032017
Current releasev20, April 20234.0.8, September 20156, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#C and AssemblerC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript API.NET Client APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptC#
Java
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)yes
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
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 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.noyesno infoplanned for next versionno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)Role-based access control

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