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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. TerarkDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
Developer4D, IncAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupCambridge SemanticsByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release1984201620182016
Current releasev20, April 20232.3, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92yesSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.no
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
ODBC
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C++
Java
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functions and aggregatesno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusternone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoKerberos/HDFS data loadingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infonot needed in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesno

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