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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AllegroGraph vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. SurrealDB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
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
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comallegrograph.comcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmsurrealdb.com/­docs
Developer4D, IncFranz Inc.Cambridge SemanticsSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release1984200420182022
Current releasev20, April 20238.0, December 20232.3, January 2021v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageRust
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesno infobulk load of XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SPARQL is used as query languageSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functions and aggregates
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith FederationAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoKerberos/HDFS data loadingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infonot needed in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rules
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAllegroGraphAnzoGraph DBSurrealDB
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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