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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. AllegroGraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesWide column storeDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeallegrograph.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorefranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
Developer4D, IncAlibabaAlibabaFranz Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release19842016201620042012
Current releasev20, April 20238.0, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnoyes
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Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono infobulk load of XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languagenoSPARQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaJava
Python
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javanoyes infoJavaScript or Common Lisplimited functionality with using 'rules'
TriggersyesnonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicewith Federation
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-row operationsACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rules
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlibaba Cloud MaxComputeAlibaba Cloud Table StoreAllegroGraphFirebase Realtime Database
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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