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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AllegroGraph vs. Geode

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AllegroGraph vs. Geode

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  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 warehousingHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputeallegrograph.comgeode.apache.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputefranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlgeode.apache.org/­docs
Developer4D, IncAlibabaFranz Inc.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.
Initial release1984201620042002
Current releasev20, April 20238.0, December 20231.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also required
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infobulk load of XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language (OQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javayes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoCache Event Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicewith FederationSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes, on a single node
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights per client and object definable
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlibaba Cloud MaxComputeAllegroGraphGeode
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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