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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AllegroGraph vs. Axibase vs. Graphite vs. SQLite

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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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
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comallegrograph.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
Developer4D, IncFranz Inc.Axibase CorporationChris DavisDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release19842004201320062000
Current releasev20, April 20238.0, December 2023155853.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
server-less
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringNumeric data onlyyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith FederationShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes infovia file-system locks
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnono
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAllegroGraphAxibaseGraphiteSQLite
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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