DBMS > 4D vs. AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. Hive vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. Hive vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

docs.datomic.com

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Franz Inc.

Cognitect

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1984

2004

2012

2000

Current release

v20, April 2023

8.0, December 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

bulk load of XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

C++
Java
PHP
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

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

with Federation

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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