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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Graph Engine vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Graph Engine vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMSDocument store
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Score2.13
Rank#114  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#306  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.59
Rank#235  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#33  Key-value stores
Score1.40
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.graphengine.iowww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.tigergraph.com
Developer4D, IncAlibabaMicrosoft8Kdata
Initial release19842016201020172016
Current releasev20, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation language.NET and CC++Java
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hosted.NETLinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyes
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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