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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. GraphDB vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. GraphDB vs. Machbase Neo

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score3.32
Rank#91  Overall
#6  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.ontotext.commachbase.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationmachbase.com/­dbms
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
Developer4D, IncAlibabaAmazonOntotextMachbase
Initial release19842016201220002013
Current releasev20, April 202310.4, October 2023V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonowell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityno
Triggersyesnoyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoConstraint checkingno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.simple password-based access control
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlibaba Cloud Table StoreAmazon DynamoDBGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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